“Lake Enigma” is living up to its name.
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By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores.
How Many Van Goghs Does It Take to Van Gogh? Finding the Imitation Threshold. How Many Van Goghs Does It Take to Van Gogh? Finding the Imitation Thres
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Diving deep into the relationship between a concept’s frequency in the training dataset and the ability of a model to imitate it. We seek to determine the point at which a model was trained on enough instances to imitate a concept — the imitation threshold.
Exploring the potential of glycomimetic peptides as powerful anti-inflammatory therapeutic treatments.
Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might.
When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to identify whether one moving dot was chasing another moving dot, those with greater tendencies toward paranoid thinking (believing others intend them harm) and teleological thinking (ascribing excessive meaning and purpose to events) performed worse than their counterparts, the study found. Those individuals more often—and confidently—claimed one dot was chasing the other when it wasn’t.
The findings, published in the journal Communications Psychology, suggest that in the future, testing for illnesses like schizophrenia could be done with a simple eye test.
Going Critical
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Very interesting discussion (with interactive animations) of how diffusion and criticality can model real-world processes and give us insight into why things happen.
Learn how things spread with playable simulations.