A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
AI trading agents formed price-fixing cartels when put in simulated markets, Wharton study reveals
Artificial intelligence is just smart—and stupid—enough to pervasively form price-fixing cartels in financial market conditions if left to…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 6: Decision Tree Regressor
5 days of this Machine Learning “Advent Calendar”, we explored 5 models (or algorithms) that are all based…
Why Digital Burnout Is Now The ‘Default State’ Of Being Online
There will always be another notification. (© fotoAI – stock.adobe.com) Today’s algorithms prioritize engagement, but what about well-being?…
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper: “A baker…
AlphaFold Database Structure Extractor: a web server and API to download AlphaFold structures using common protein accessions | BMC Bioinformatics
Background The AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor (https://project.iith.ac.in/sharmaglab/alphafoldextractor/) is an open-access web server and API toolkit designed to facilitate the…
OMetaNet: an efficient hybrid deep learning model based on multimodal data fusion and contrastive learning for predicting 2ʹ-O-methylation sites in human RNA | BMC Bioinformatics
Arzumanian VA, Dolgalev GV, Kurbatov IY, Kiseleva OI, Poverennaya EV. Epitranscriptome: review of top 25 most-studied RNA modifications.…
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom – POLITICO
Draft changes would create new exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to legally process special categories…
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas…
Don’t let AI chatbots tell you how to vote, Dutch authorities warn voters – POLITICO
Dutch voters elect a new parliament next Wednesday. The Dutch data protection authority ran an experiment on how…