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An equation that looks at averages says a population will die out where catalysts are scarce. A simulation built from individual agents shows the opposite: the population survives in islands that follow the catalysts.
In Alexandria, where geometry, astronomy and Neoplatonism met, a mind refused to surrender to the rote truths of its age: Hypatia. The trace she left is a reminder that thinking is not a privilege but a debt.
Freud held that most of mental life happens below awareness. Experimental psychology and neuroscience now measure it — confirming part of his intuition and correcting part of it.
Bowlby’s theory held that a child needs a reliable emotional base. Large longitudinal studies and meta-analyses now show how far that reaches into adulthood.
Defence mechanisms protect us from anxiety and hold us in place at the same time. Once dismissed as speculative, they can now be measured.
Our thinking runs on shortcuts that make fast decisions possible. The same shortcuts also produce predictable errors: cognitive biases.
How realistic is a machine that knows everything and never errs? Through the limits set by Turing, Gödel, Landauer and Bekenstein, we look at what artificial superintelligence could achieve and what it never will.
In a software-defined network the switches make no decisions; they only look up a table. Using virtual networks built inside a single computer, we look at where decisions are made, why the first packet is slow, and how a network breaks.
Switches, cables and servers can be built without real hardware, inside a single computer. We look at how Mininet does it, what can be tried on a virtual network, and what a laptop cannot show.
