Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making ...

California voters have one big ballot measure to consider this year. Here's what you need to know about Proposition 50 and how it would impact the state. What is Proposition 50? If passed, it would ...

Max Tokens is the maximum number of tokens the model can generate during a run. The model will try to stay within this limit across all turns. If it exceeds the specified number, the run will stop and ...

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

A guy I knew in college once told me, as I struggled to make a point in a dorm lounge argument, that I had “the verbal acuity of shampoo.” The put-down was so devastating that it immediately ended ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

1 Minutia.AI Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore 2 Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy A representation of the cause-effect mechanism is ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programs. They let you write reusable code, reduce duplication, and make projects easier to maintain. In this guide, we’ll walk through all the ways you can ...

The buzzy new publication devoted to “libbing out” reprises the mistakes of the longstanding alliance between neoliberalism and Beltway journalism. Jerusalem Demsas, editor of the newly launched ...

Pamphlet “Common Sense,” 1776. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his ...

The progenitor system of the compact binary merger GW190425 had a total mass of 3.41(-0.1)(+0.3) M-circle dot (90th-percentile confidence region) as measured from its gravitational wave signal. This ...