The subthalamic nucleus contains subpopulations with different contributions to deliberative decision-making based on noisy evidence and reward-driven preferences.

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...

Abstract: Many-objective optimization problems are challenging and time-consuming, especially when the number of objectives is large. In this paper, an evolutionary algorithm inspired by quantum ...

This project is all about implementing two of the most popular rank aggregation algorithms, Markov Chain Type 4 or MC4 and MCT. In the field of Machine Learning and many other scientific problems, ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, the Python random.seed() function produces identical random number generator (RNG) streams when seeded with positive and negative integers of the same ...

Are you a postal or other logistics worker? Send us a report on conditions in your facility by filling out the form at the end of this article. On Sunday, November 16, at 3:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Networks are systems comprised of two or more connected devices, biological organisms or other components, which typically share information with each other. Understanding how information moves ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: The large-capacity high-speed permanent-magnet generator, with its unique design, plays a crucial role in special applications such as aviation and integrated power system. However, it has ...