The past few weeks, I've returned to a project I worked on over a year ago to add some new features. One thing that is bugging me is how I am building some of the more complex objects from an input ...

Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life ...

Learning how a “large language model” operates. By Kevin Roose In the second of our five-part series, I’m going to explain how the technology actually works. The artificial intelligences that powers ...

Many neurons exhibit 'mixed selectivity,' meaning they can integrate multiple inputs and participate in multiple computations. Mechanisms such as oscillations and neuromodulators recruit their ...

A research team has developed a novel method for estimating the predictability of complex dynamical systems. Their work, "Time-lagged recurrence: A data-driven method to estimate the predictability of ...