The joint probability of two or more variables being “extreme” is relevant in Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) in various contexts, including: Assessing the likelihood of extreme peak flow ...

Abstract: Modeling a complex system with a large number of variables at one time and collecting global data on a large scale is usually not practical. It is ideal to model the global system according ...

MIT and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have launched a new seed program aimed at accelerating innovation in healthcare by funding collaborative research projects between the two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of finance and technology, follow for more. Joint probability teaches us to calculate combined outcomes.

New studies from OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found that, generally, the more time users spend talking to ChatGPT, the lonelier they feel. The connection was made as part of two, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed ...

An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could collide with Earth in a few years. Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and ...

Dr. Richard Binzel and his team have been tracking asteroid 2024 YR4 for months. WBZ-TV's Brandon Truitt reports. American fans lightly boo 'O Canada' before 4 Nations Face-Off title game SpaceX is ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

When a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a pro-Palestine magazine in the spring of 2024, they hoped it would serve as a platform for “revolutionary thought on ...

A sign at a student rally on Massachusetts Ave. at MIT, urges the university to "lift the ban on academic free speech." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Nearly 100 MIT students rallied on the Cambridge campus ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

“The ultimate determinate in war is the man on the scene with the gun. This man is the final power in war. He is in control. He determines who wins.” — J.C. Wylie, Military Strategy: A General Theory ...