Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

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If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Simulation games manage to convert the mundane into something ...

context: Simulation for statistical power and sample size computation for regression (linear, GLM, discrete,...) when regressors are random and correlated. For each simulation run we also need random ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Illinois Wesleyan University Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences Amber Kujath has been using the Virtual Dementia Tour since 2018. First responders and other community members got a new perspective on ...

Abstract: The normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) distribution is a recent variance-mean mixture of a Gaussian with an inverse Gaussian distribution. The NIG can serve as a model for data that are ...

The median level for the yen-U.S. dollar exchange rate is projected to be 168.21 one year from now, compared to 170.05 last week, according to this week’s 100,000 scenario simulation of JGB yields and ...