The ongoing conflict around the Strait of Hormuz has become a situation in game theory known as a war of attrition. The maths behind it can help explain what's going on, says Petros Sekeris ...

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There is an exciting future on the horizon—one in which your thoughts could directly control electronic devices you use every ...

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Designing algorithms for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in imperfect-information games — scenarios where players act sequentially and cannot see each other’s private information, like poker ...

Scott Duke Kominers ’09 is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics. A pair of hikers comes ...

Titled Game of Thrones: The Mad King, the play will premiere this summer in Stratford-upon-Avon, and tell the story of the tourney at Harrenhal. Taking place in 281 AC, just a couple of years before ...

It may seem like you are having flashbacks, but you are not. The deal that AMD has just announced with Meta Platforms is extremely similar to the one it inked back in October with model builder OpenAI ...

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Minecraft looks simple on the surface — but every abandoned structure, hostile mob, and strange dimension points to a massive hidden backstory. Scattered clues reveal a lost civilization of ancient ...

I grew up in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville when it had more gun racks than yoga mats. In elementary school, I was one of two black kids in the entire building. It was the early 1980s: faded ...