Denton’s housing market is a classic case of the prisoner’s dilemma. The challenge is getting rational actors to do what’s in ...

When an election result is disputed, people who are skeptical about the outcome may be swayed by figures of authority who ...

A letter writer recently wrote that the Portland City Council was a role model for the nation for its decision to divest from companies doing business with Israel. I have lived in Portland for over 30 ...

A new research collaboration between Singapore and China has proposed a method for attacking the popular synthesis method 3D ...

As we navigate through life, the way we manage our money and make financial decisions naturally changes. Previous research has shown that when making financial decisions, older adults are sometimes ...

In a previous post, we considered three of seven "irrational" habits of highly rational people. Here we consider the remaining four, as well as some suggestions for distinguishing the genuinely ...

The importance of recognizing what's rational and what's not If someone was as rational as could be—with sound decisions and many accurate and trustworthy judgments about the world—would we ...

The standard model originated some 25 years ago and has successfully reproduced a whole plethora of observations. But some of the latest measurements of large-scale structure, a topic which I work ...

The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.

The organization claims that its biggest Molmo model, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in tests that measure ...

ING Groep NV is starting to use artificial intelligence to price currencies, replacing a job traditionally performed manually by the bank’s traders. The Dutch lender’s new AI model employs ...