Children rapidly acquire an ability for language during early development. One theory, called iterated learning, posits that language evolves over generations to become more structured. This structure ...

One of turn-of-the-millennium pop's big thinkers, Timbaland has co-launched a new AI-focused entertainment company called Stage Zero, which recently announced its first AI-generated "artist," TaTa.

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

Paste any Python code — TinyToT parses it with ast and reports: classes, methods, attributes, function signatures, loop/branch counts, recursion detection, O(n²) warnings. TinyToT is a drop-in ...

Key priorities in the CXP1 bioreactor design and operation are uniformity of organoid size and system reproducibility, to ensure there is minimal variation in organoid characteristics between and ...

Motivation: An important feature of microbiome count data is the presence of a large number of zeros. A common strategy to handle these excess zeros is to add a small number called pseudo-count (e.g., ...

More than 40 y ago, Schelling introduced one of the first agent-based models in the social sciences. The model showed that even if people only have a mild preference for living with neighbors of the ...

This blog entry is an excuse for continuing our discussion of cartesian closed categories (CCCs) and the λ-calculus in a slightly more organized way. Let’s focus on more or less “traditional” aspects ...