Radio telescopes generate petabytes of data, but what if most of it can be predicted mathematically? This is the story of how to compress cosmic signals losslessly.
NeuroBlog
Why You Aren't in the Next Room Yet: Quantum Mechanics vs. Your Forehead
Science & Technology • Physics
We figure out why the Pauli exclusion principle won't let you walk through a wall – even though atoms are 99.9% empty space – and what angry electrons have to do with it.
Lab
Случайная упаковка дисков: симфония третьего вириального коэффициента
Physics & Space • Condensed Matter
Как предсказать плотность упаковки смесей дисков разного размера? Новый метод выявляет универсальную закономерность через элегантный математический параметр – приведённый третий вириальный коэффициент.
Представьте нейросеть, которая учится самбе у самого времени – не запоминая каждый шаг, а улавливая ритм. Именно так работают рандомизированные дифференциальные уравнения.
Lab
How the Brain Breathes in Sleep: A Symphony of Invisible Waves in the Cortex
Biology & Neuroscience
Scientists have learned to read hidden messages between brain areas of a sleeping mouse, turning electric whispers of the cortex into an understandable story about how dreams are born.
Lab
Generalizing Generalization: When Neural Networks Learn to Predict – But Not What We Expected
Computer Science
Let's figure out why a language model's success on one test outside of training doesn't guarantee a win on another – and what this means for real-world AI applications.
Lab
When the Market Loses its Randomness: How Price Quirks Create Infinite Profit Opportunities
Finance & Economics
Research shows that in financial models with unusual price behavior – stops, reflections, asymmetry – strange arbitrage opportunities arise, resembling a «perpetual motion machine» of trading.
Imagine spaces where shapes intertwine like musical notes, and counting them reveals invisible symmetries – this is the world of toric Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Lab
How to Teach an Algorithm Not to Panic: The Story of Prediction Intervals That Think Ahead
Mathematics & Statistics
A new method constructs tight uncertainty intervals by leveraging data structure, all while maintaining accuracy guarantees even when things go off the rails – and it's a total game-changer.