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Imagine trying to predict how long a roller coaster ride will last without ever having been on one before. It sounds nearly impossible, right? Well, that’s similar to the challenge people faced when predicting the duration of an ongoing epidemic caused by a new virus. In a recent study, researchers investigated how well individuals could […]
Imagine you’re in a secret code club where each member has their own unique way of speaking. Some might say the secret phrase with a British accent, while others might emphasize certain words to convey different meanings. In this study, scientists wanted to understand how these social cues develop in language. They created an artificial […]
Imagine you’re building a puzzle. One approach is to focus on individual puzzle pieces and their relationships, while another approach is to identify larger, cohesive sections. These two approaches also exist in the field of statistical learning, which explores how we extract patterns from sequences. The transitional probability approach emphasizes the computation of probabilities between […]
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