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Uncertainty Analysis
As traditional career paths break down, a more uncertain — and potentially more fulfilling — model is taking shape.
Parallel universes are among the most profound notions in all of quantum physics. It's a compelling and fascinating idea, but is it true?
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Asteroid 2024 YR4, which could devastate a city's worth of humans, has gone from 1.2% to 2.3% to 2.6% to 3.1% chances of impact. Here's why.
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“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
Why has the value of strategic thinking never been higher? It’s complex.
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We’re often ashamed to say, “I don’t know” — but this professional poker player thinks it’s one of our greatest strengths.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
Some processes, like quantum tunneling, have been shown to occur instantaneously. But the ultimate cosmic speed limit remains unavoidable.
One study suggested that the "Methuselah Star" is older than the Universe itself.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.
All protons have the same exact mass as every other proton. For particles like the Higgs boson, this isn’t true. One of the most puzzling aspects of quantum physics is how […]
In the quantum world of the unstable, even identical particles don’t have identical masses. In the microscopic world of the quantum particle, there are certain rules that are wholly unfamiliar […]
Did they perform their analysis sub-optimally? Maybe. But gravitational waves were seen no matter what. “We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds […]