It's what everyone wants to know - but is literally impossible to answer: How many people took to the streets Saturday in the women's marches across the United States?
Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2017
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The wisdom of crowds is not always perfect. But two scholars at MIT's Sloan Neuroeconomics Lab, along with a colleague at Princeton University, have found a way to make it better.
Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2017
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Once every three years, millions of Hindus gather for the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival in the world. This spring, 60 to 80 million pilgrims travelled to the banks of the Shipra river, at the holy city of Ujjain, ...
Mathematics
Dec 12, 2016
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4
Over the last decade, computer scientists have harnessed crowds of Internet users to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone, such as determining whether an image contains a tree, rating the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 2, 2016
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5
From a very young age, we're warned against shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater. The possibility of inciting mass panic presents an obvious moral problem. But for researchers, the situation also presents an interesting ...
Mathematics
Sep 13, 2016
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When guessing the weight of an ox or estimating how many marbles fill a jar, the many have been shown to be smarter than the few. These collective displays of intelligence have been dubbed 'the wisdom of crowds,' but exactly ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2016
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France will deploy anti-drone technology to interfere with and take control of any flying machines that violate no-fly zones over stadiums at the European Championship, part of unprecedented measures to secure Europe's biggest ...
Other
May 17, 2016
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5
Crowds formed from tiny particles disperse as their environment becomes more disordered, according to scientists from UCL, Bilkent University and Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
General Physics
Mar 9, 2016
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Android phones are a dime a dozen. How can any of them really stand out from the crowd?
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 20, 2015
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Computers have scanned aerial photographs and conducted the first automated mass-crowd count in the world, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Central Florida.
Computer Sciences
Oct 15, 2015
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