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A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored the problem-solving abilities of ants and humans in a maze experiment. The research compared individual and group performances of both species using a "piano movers puzzle" setup. While humans excelled individually due to cognitive abilities, ants outperformed humans in group tasks. The study highlights the ants' collective memory and strategic cooperation, contrasting with humans' reliance on short-term solutions and limited group communication. These findings provide insights into the dynamics of group decision-making and the potential advantages of cohesive cooperation in complex tasks.

🎉 Exciting News! 2,000 reads on ResearchGate! 🎉 I am thrilled to announce that our paper "Flood Prediction through Artificial Neural Networks: A Case Study in Goslar, Lower Saxony" has reached 2,000 reads on ResearchGate! 🚀 This paper (see: https://lnkd.in/eq3aqemD) explores the use of artificial neural networks for flood prediction, showcasing their potential with a case study in Goslar, Lower Saxony. Our aim was to enhance response capabilities to natural disasters through precise prediction models, thus improving the safety and well-being of communities. 🌊💡 A huge thank you to all co-authors and the scientific community whose support and interest propel our research forward. This recognition greatly motivates us to continue developing innovative solutions in environmental science. For those interested in learning more about our work, please visit our profile on ResearchGate. Additionally, the data and a benchmark focused on unknown extreme events are now publicly available. See more here: A Flood Prediction Benchmark Focused on Unknown Extreme Events (https://lnkd.in/e26_iNKG). Let's keep pushing innovation forward and better understand and protect our environment! 🌍📚 #TUClausthal #DigitalTechnologies #digitecstudieren #DIGIT #Center4DigitalTechnologies #ISSE #Institute4SoftwareSystemsEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #digitizedcirculareconomy #circulareconomy #startups #ostfalia

Vraiment fameux! Calculating Empires: une histoire visuelle de la technologie et de sa relation très intime avec le pouvoir, de la Renaissance à aujourd'hui. Kate Crawford et Vladan Joler ont réalisé un travail colossal où le mot intelligence prend ici tout son sens. «How can we understand the operations of technology and power in our era? Our technological systems are increasingly complex, interconnected, automated and opaque. Social institutions, from schools to prisons, are becoming data industries, incorporating pervasive forms of capture and analysis. Even places that were once off-limits to capital, from our emotional expressions to outer space, are now subject to computational control and extraction. Meanwhile, the industrial transformations in AI are concentrating power into even fewer hands, while accelerating polarization and alienation. If we are to address the urgent challenges of the contemporary time - including technocratic fascism, climate catastrophe, colonial wars, and wealth inequality - we need to contend with the interwoven nature of their histories. In order to have a future, we must first confront our past. Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound. By tracking these imperial pathways, Calculating Empires offers a means of seeing our technological present in a deeper historical context. And by investigating how past empires have calculated, we can see how they created the conditions of empire today.» https://lnkd.in/e6jSaKKi

The Religious like faith-based conviction That ET Is Out There Survives Every Setback by those who opt to live in willful ignorance.: In SPIRAL cosmological redshift hypothesis and model find how and why 'SETI Sacked', we (mankind) are special and the raison-d'etre for the physical universe. Follow, enjoy, recommend and share my research on @ResearchGate to help advance science and correct the history books: https://lnkd.in/ePmq7DyX? utm_source=twitter&rgutm_meta1=eHNsLWlsM0FpTmpBd2Y1cThKdVJNV3VobnZkbEEwdGNUcEpJbDlUdlk4eFdUc2JmVE85Z0J0UDE2ZjlMcHdxTE1sU0NQT2dtL3dxOGhobFdjTm9NSExWag%3D%3D

Time travel is one of many topics in science friction that draws attention of experts in field of science, tech, engineering, mathematics (STEM) as well as general public. This online video session will take you through these topics. Taking Trips Through Time Problems Paadoxes and Ethics of Time Travel Eploring Einstein's Space Time Next Frontiers of Time Physicists, cosmetologists, world best mathematicians, engineers, scientists and technologists etc... are still figuring, and using all ways and means to prove time travel exits. Register to know more interesting insights about time travel. https://lnkd.in/gF4g_Z7e

How can we understand the operations of technology and power in our era? Our technological systems are increasingly complex, interconnected, automated and opaque. Social institutions, from schools to prisons, are becoming data industries, incorporating pervasive forms of capture and analysis. Even places that were once off-limits to capital, from our emotional expressions to outer space, are now subject to computational control and extraction. Meanwhile, the industrial transformations in AI are concentrating power into even fewer hands, while accelerating polarization and alienation. If we are to address the urgent challenges of the contemporary time - including technocratic fascism, climate catastrophe, colonial wars, and wealth inequality - we need to contend with the interwoven nature of their histories. In order to have a future, we must first confront our past. https://lnkd.in/djNSM4rC

Get to know our Transparent Ocean Research Fellow, Dr Ping Ma, in our latest ‘Researcher Focus’ article 🔎 Discover what Ping’s research is all about, what impact her research is having outside of academia and what she enjoys doing in her spare time 🌍📷    #ResearcherFocus #TransparentOcean #ResearchImpact  

A easy read on research from Anthropic on explainability of LLMs. While we are long ways off, research in this area is critical if we must trust LLMs in several scenarios (personal and enterprise) and the work is  directionally leading us down that path https://lnkd.in/gisNAfwj

I’ve always found it puzzling why scientific papers are so difficult to read. It seems that scientists and engineers often use technical jargon to explain their work, even though most people who support their research are more interested in its societal impact than in complex terminology. One reason Newton and Einstein’s works were well understood is that they used simple analogies. Newton could have chosen calculus to explain his laws but opted for geometry, and Einstein used trains to illustrate his theory of special relativity. https://lnkd.in/drNC3mbw

One more paper in Coastal Engineering: https://lnkd.in/e4wZvsdU This paper discusses the reconstruction of coastal sea states through super-resolution machine learning on unstructured grids. It brings us one step closer to speeding up operational wave forecasting with high accuracy. The work is the second paper of our freshly graduated PhD student Jannik Fernando Kühn.