Influencers are using prediction market odds to sow doubt in vote counting, in some cases in posts paid for by the companies themselves.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

When you type a query into a search engine, something has to decide which documents are actually relevant — and how to rank them. BM25 (Best Matching 25), the algorithm powering search engines like ...

SINGAPORE – In 2024, Singapore’s digital economy grew by $12 billion, contributing $128.1 billion or 18.6 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and generated 214,000 tech jobs. Its contribution to ...

The identification and visualization of functional elements within biological sequences offers visual presentation for biologists to integrate annotation, and also helps them to produce high-quality ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...

Background Joint analyses across multiple health datasets can increase statistical power and improve the generalisability of research findings. However, limitations on data sharing often prevent ...

Rocks close to the surface fracture, whereas rocks at depths flow implying the existence of a “brittle-to-ductile” transition (BDT) region. This region is key in several Earth science applications and ...

The BUQEYE collaboration (Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification: Errors in Your effective field theory) presents a pedagogical introduction to projection-based, reduced-order emulators for applications ...

Predicting the stability of granular materials under particle removal has wide-reaching applications, including automating tunnel excavations. Searching for general laws that govern granular stability ...