The authors, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, mean that very literally: a superintelligence — an AI that’s smarter than any ...

A new rentier economy has been constructed and the UK remains trapped in low economic growth. The government must adopt ...

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As Kenya continues to navigate the complex legacy of devolution, the debate persists: should we keep 47 counties, reduce them to 14 as proposed in the Naivasha Draft, or revert to 8 regional units as ...

The ‘milk carton rule’ helps you use principles of psychology to accept reality and redirect your energy in the right ...

Abstract: By following Zhang design method, a new type of recurrent neural network [i.e., Zhang neural network (ZNN)] is presented, investigated, and analyzed for online solution of time-varying ...

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By Avner Pariat Max Weber – the progenitor of what we might call modern bureaucratic theory – envisioned it as the pinnacle of organizational efficiency. He argued that the ideal bureaucracy ...

Abstract: Optimal management model in BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system can be reduced into a min-max programming problem subject to addition-min fuzzy relation inequality. To ...

General education classes.We all know what they are and we all seem to hate them – especially when they have nothing to do with our major. Anything from a math class, a history class or even a science ...

PaPILO, a C++14-based software package, provides parallel presolve routines for (mixed integer) linear programming problems. The routines are implemented using templates which allows switching to ...