Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks ...

I do hope that I can visit [The Santa Fe Institute] again in the future -- it seems to me one of the most exciting places on earth.

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

SFI External Professor Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas) will serve as co-chair and synthesis lead of the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, ...

This paper is a review of a few problems associated with the observation of scaling laws in urban systems. Two levels in the spatial organization have to be formalized, cities as systems and systems ...

PicAxe is open-source Python software that researchers can use to extract figures from corpora of PDF files that contain text and images. It is designed to extract figures from corpora that include ...

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by skewing the sex ratio of the marriage market. In turn ...

We construct the most general form of our previously proposed nonlinear extension of quantum mechanics that possesses three basic properties. Unlike the simpler model, the new version is not ...

It has been found recently that more data can, counter-intuitively, hurt the performance of deep neural networks. Here, we show that a more extreme version of the phenomenon occurs in data-driven ...

Dunbar's framework highlights the challenge of maintaining large, stable social networks given cognitive constraints. Expanding on this, I propose that fractal social networks function as lossy ...

How does the human brain encode complex visual information? While previous research has characterized individual dimensions of visual representation in cortex, we still lack a comprehensive ...