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How to make better decisions—using scoring systems

When faced with difficult choices, we often rank the alternatives to see how they stack up. This app ...
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Sharpening Occam’s Razor: A new perspective on structure and complexity

In science, the explanation with the fewest assumptions is most likely to be true. Called “Occ ...
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Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what ...

Two weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming ...
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Decade-Long Struggle Over Maths Proof Could Be Decided By $1m ...

Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki’s Inter-universal Teichmüller theory has attracted controvers ...
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UK hobbyist stuns math world with ‘amazing’ new shapes

David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking ...
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Exploring how community-based social norms evolve

Cooperation is a guiding principle of everyday life. It’s as simple as following the rules of ...
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Global symmetry found to be not completely necessary for the ...

An international team led by researchers at Nankai University in China and at University of Zagreb i ...
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Researchers develop online hate speech ‘shockwave’ formula

A George Washington University research team has created a novel formula that demonstrates how, why, ...
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Butterfly chaos effect’ discovered in swarms and herds of animals

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid ...
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Implications of no-free-lunch theorems

In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume observed that induction—inferring the future based o ...
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Mathematicians Make Even Better Never-Repeating Tile Discovery

An unsatisfying caveat in a mathematical breakthrough discovery of a single tile shape that can cove ...
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Exploring ‘compellingness’ in mechanism design

Consider an auction. You have two types of main protagonists or agents: a seller (or auctioneer) and ...
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Theoretical study offers proof that one parallel world cannot be ...

Theoretical string theory in theoretical physics predicts the existence of parallel worlds (mirror s ...
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Human crowds are best modelled by a ‘visual neighbourhood’

Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighbourhood model, based on the visual fields ...
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Machine learning model analyses why couples break up

What does artificial intelligence offer that goes beyond traditional statistical models, such as reg ...
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Study: German youth show weaker performance in math, reading and ...

Young people in Germany are less proficient in mathematics, reading and science as compared to 2018. ...
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