The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is a partner in the Integrated Research Project BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems), which is being sponsored by the EU and will run until ...

Humans live in a world of uncertainty. A shadowy figure on the sidewalk ahead could be a friend or a mugger. By flooring your car’s accelerator, you might beat the train to the intersection, or maybe ...

A team of biomedical engineers has developed a computer model that makes use of more or less predictable "guesstimates" of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it ...

From within the dark confines of the skull, the brain builds its own version of reality. By weaving together expectations and information gleaned from the senses, the brain creates a story about the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Right now, your brain is decoding these ...

Achieving a 98%+ spam detection rate using a mathematical approach This white paper describes how Bayesian mathematics can be applied to the spam problem, resulting in an adaptive, ‘statistical ...

Le Quang Dung, a gold medalist at the 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad, has co-authored the first paper in a series of studies tackling a major unsolved problem in Bayesian nonparametrics that ...

This gave anti spam developers a new challenge – come up with a new anti spam technique; one that was familiar with spammers’ tactics as they change over time, and one that is able to adapt to the ...