One task for scientists today is to learn exactly which types of animal behavior predict quakes. It’s not an easy job. First of all not every animal reacts to the danger of an earthquake. Just before a California quake in 1977, for example, an Arabian horse became very nervous and trie...
The vast amount of modern literature on the length of the Greek stadion is in severe contrast with the number of ancient sources concerning its definition, or making comparisons with the other ancient metrological units. Like other Mediterranean or Near Eastern measures,Footnote1the Greek units were...
In comparison to neural networks, GPs can scale better with the dimensionality of the input space—since the number of weights or parameters does not depend on it—and provide more exact function approximations1. Additionally, GPs provide highly-coveted Bayesian uncertainty quantification on top of s...
The study looked at the 10 most popular road trips in the U.S. and abroad, including notable stateside destinations such as the historic Route 66 (No. 1) and California's Big Sur Coast Highway (No. 2). Also on the list were Australia's Great Ocean Road (No. 3), Ireland...