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Mysterious marks on 40,000-year-old Ice Age figurines may actually be the earliest precursor to writing

Deep in a cave in southwestern Germany, a Stone Age artist carved a tiny mammoth from a piece of tusk. They then covered it ...

Writing May Have Begun 40,000 Years Ago

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...
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Exposing biases, moods, personalities and abstract concepts hidden in large language models

By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...
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Numerical Encoding for Human Genetic Variants

Nicola Asuni. VariantKey - A Reversible Numerical Representation of Human Genetic Variants., bioRxiv 473744; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/473744 Human genetic ...
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Encoding Cardinality Constraints in Automated Reasoning

Automated reasoning (AR) is a branch of artificial intelligence that applies various reasoning techniques to solve problems from mathematics and logic. AR engines use clever optimizations and ...
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Scientists uncover surprising difference in the cognitive cost of reading numbers vs. words

An eye-tracking study in Switzerland found that adults make 2.5 times more fixations (focusing their eyes on a single point) when reading short numbers compared to short words. For long numbers and ...
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Ertman, N., Andreano, J.M. and Cahill, L. (2011) Progesterone at Encoding Predicts Subsequent Emotional Memory. Learning & Memory, 18, 759-763.

ABSTRACT: The menstrual cycle has been a topic of interest in relation to behavior and cognition for many years, with historical beliefs associating it with cognitive impairment. However, recent ...