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To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

Understanding the historical evolution and divergence of languages requires a quantitative framework for measuring their relationships. Traditional linguistic classifications provide hierarchical ...

Abstract: Graph signal processing (GSP) is a prominent framework for analyzing signals on non-Euclidean domains. The graph Fourier transform (GFT) uses the combinatorial graph Laplacian matrix to ...

While retrieval-augmented generation is effective for simpler queries, advanced reasoning questions require deeper connections between information that exist across documents. They require a knowledge ...

School of Engineering, Institute of Computer Science, Intelligent Information Systems Research Group, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland Many different methods for ...

MIAMI — The times, they are a-changin’. The owner of Miami clothier Austin Burke paid $300,000 for his Wynwood spot back in the 1980′s. Now, preparing to close their doors, the owner just sold the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...

I know that for chordal graphs, Sage has a function to recognize a perfect elimination ordering. This problem is somewhat similar, identifying chordal bipartite graphs. The following theorem is ...