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AIs can outperform humans easily on short tasks, but longer ones are the true hurdle to overcome before we can deem them to be truly intelligent systems. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Not all Spice versions perform Monte Carlo simulations. Even those that do may only have a small number of available distributions, much less custom ones. LTSpice, for example, has built-in random ...

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Sreevas Sahasranamam has ongoing research projects funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, British Council and Indian government. I originally got introduced to Azeem Azhar, the English ...

It is 70 years since AT&T’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places. It ...