The conjunction and disjunction fallacies are famous for revealing the limits of human reasoning about probability. This can be measured by telling people a short story about a character and then ...

This paper considers some problems in the probabilistic analysis of physical evidence in criminal investigations. Two basic assumptions are made: (1) That the number of persons or objects possessing a ...

Ever since Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles. But a new article makes ...

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll Oneworld (2019) At the beginning of Something Deeply Hidden, Sean Carroll cites the tale of the fox and the grapes ...

A key fact in the theory of Boolean functions f: {0, 1}n → {0, 1} is that they often undergo sharp thresholds. For example, if the function f: {0, 1}n → {0, 1} is monotone and symmetric under a ...

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