If intelligence analysis is to improve, we must learn from our new understanding of cognitive bias.
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nov2023 Q5 Intelligence analysis, human biases & superforecasters: Some understanding brings to the world an ‘open-minded, curious, careful and self-critical’ attitude when seeking knowledge…
In a 1967 letter to the number theorist André Weil, a 30-year-old mathematician named Robert Langlands outlined striking conjectures that predicted a correspondence between two objects from completely different fields of math.
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may2023 Q5 Number theory, harmonic analysis & 'The Langlands Program': TWE is this visual animation helpful in communicating 'The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics'?
An evolutionary approach to consciousness can resolve the ‘hard problem’ – with radical implications for animal sentience
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may2023 Q5 Blindsight, 'sentition' & 'the society of selves': TWE are these visual representations useful in explaining an evolutionary solution to the hard problem of consciousness?
Scientists at Caltech have developed a super-fast camera that can record footage of the electrical impulses that travel through nerve cells.
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may2023 Q5 Diff-CUP, M-Z interferometers & nerve signals: new tech allows visual representations of the brain which could help discover & communicate new neuroscientific knowledge...
Twenty years ago, physicists set out to investigate a mysterious asymmetry in the proton’s interior. Their results, published today, show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom’s core.
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may2023 Q2 Proton seas, pion clods & SpinQuest: evolving models of the atom get closer to explaining an 'unresolved story'...
"Orel State University रूस में सबसे लोकप्रिय और अग्रणी चिकित्सा संस्थानों में से एक है। इसकी स्थापना 1931 में औद्योगिक-शैक्षणिक संस्थान के रूप में हुई थी, लेकिन 1996 में इसका नाम बदलकर Orel State University कर दिया गया। विश्वविद्यालय के पास सबसे बड़े बुनियादी ढांचे और परिसरों में से एक है।"<a href="https://dreammedicine.in/orel-state-medical-institute">Orel State Medical University</a>
may2023 Q5 The powers of two, math paradoxes & open questions: even with visual representations some math problems still resist clear solutions, if not communication of plausible answers...
Featuring Juanita Pinzón Caicedo from University of Notre Dame.
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may2023 Q5 Euclidean geometry, the parallel postulate & different dimensions: using different math models to visualise an ancient math problem & communicate knowledge of limitations of some math knowledge...
Math teachers have stymied students for hundreds of years by sticking goats in strangely shaped fields. Learn why one grazing goat problem has stumped mathematicians for more than a century.
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may2023 Q5 The Grazing Goat Problem(s), trigonometry & transcendental functions: using visual representations to communicate just how hard solving some seemingly simple math problems can be...
An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.
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may2023 Q5 Worm holes, black holes & temporal short cuts: communicating complex math knowledge about the structure of the universe through visual representations...
A mathematical model developed by space medicine experts from The Australian National University (ANU) could be used to predict whether an astronaut can safely travel to Mars and fulfil their mission duties upon stepping foot on the Red Planet.
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may2023 Q5 Mars, microgravity & space dehydration: math models help to simulate risks & make ever accurate predictions about who should or shouldn't make long haul space flights...
What does drought mean and what are the implications for water, food, rivers and wildlife?
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may2023 Q5 Climate science, drought & heatwaves: Communicating through visual images on environmental issues helps non-experts understand the complex network of causes & effects and how these form the basis for future planning...
HS experts are supposed to be trained to communicate difficult knowledge about mental health conditions and yet our expectations sometimes ignore the fact that diagnosing and treating mental illnesses is a messy business and not always easy. New tech allows experts to create visualisations which in turn can be helpful in communicating the complexities of a case and potentia
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may2023 Q5 PET scans, memory loss & technology: Considering the implications of brain visualisations as part of the communication of diagnostic & treatment knowledge...
This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.
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may2023 Q5 Pizzagate, linear sizings & fair exchange: how a visual representation and some math knowledge could help you from being scammed when ordering pizza!
The Kakeya conjecture predicts how much room you need to point a line in every direction. In one number system after another — with one important exception — mathematicians have been proving it true.
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may2023 Q5 Real numbers, the Kakeya conjecture & modulus maths: even with some visual representations, an element of expertise is a pre-requisite to understand what's being communicated...
"Polycrisis" was the big topic in Davos. But people disagree on whether we’re headed toward one — or whether it even means anything.
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may2023 Q5 Polycrisis, complex systems & the futility thesis: using visual representations effectively to communicate knowledge of the interconnectedness of the geopolitical world...
The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. It’s often misinterpreted. How should we understand it?
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may2023 Q5 The Living Planet Index, the world's wildlife & statistics: how to limit misinterpretation of data through helpful visual representations of the numbers involved and a little conceptual clarity...
A bizarre and brilliantly effective optical illusion going viral on the internet tricks your brain into seeing a colour image… but if you look closer, you'll notice the photo you're staring at is only black and white.
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may2023 Q5 'Colour assimilation grid illusion', 'vision science' & perception: using visual representations to communicate how the brain represents colour...
In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in their first year of life and around half of all children died before they reached the end of puberty. It’s only in the very recent past that we’ve seen dramatic improvements.
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may2023 Q5 Mortality rates, fertility rates & the connections between them: How far are these maps & charts convincing in communicating the knowledge that humans have progressed as a species?
Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are…
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may2023 Q5 Brain cartography, brain boundaries & parsing the brain: how current visual representations of the brain can be 'really stifling [to] research' in spite of communicating important insights...
This video features the Oxford Robotics Institute demonstrating their SLAM algorithm with their frontier device and the Boston Dynamics Spot robot.
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may2023 Q5 LIDAR, SLAM & factor graphs: visually explaining how robots can visually represent reality to construct a digital model that helps them to navigate an environment...
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.
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may2023 Q5 Machine learning, chaos models & parallelization: Using visual representations to communicate knowledge of how AI enhances our ability for prediction...
may2023 Q5 Coffee beans jingle (c. 1960s), dimensional analysis & homogeneity: how visualisations can muck up the communication of math knowledge while promoting a brand...
All three statements are true at the same time. But discussions about the state of the world too often focus on only the first one.
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may2023 Q5 Child mortality, progress & social responsibility: Visually representing the essential questions about a global issue helps communicate the problems and possible solutions.
Since they can’t prod actual universes as they inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.
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may2023 Q5 Quantum bubbles, D-Wave & multiverse hypothesis: how experts require 'digital and physical analogs' to help explore & communicate math knowledge of our Universe's origins.
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