- There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
2026/03/01 by Madeline G. Eppley, Andy Lee, Robert Dellinger +1 · 5 voices · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Causality (physics) #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Impossibility #Misinformation #Scientific consensus #Scientific evidence #Sex and Gender in Healthcare #Sexual Differentiation and Disorders #Unanimity
- Smoothed Analysis of Online and Differentially Private Learning
2020/06/17 by Nika Haghtalab, Haghtalab, Nika, Tim Roughgarden +3 · 7 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #Artificial intelligence #Class (philosophy) #Combinatorics #Computer science #Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) #Dimension (graph theory) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Impossibility #Learnability #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Machine Learning and Algorithms #Machine learning #Mathematics #Regret #Robustness (evolution) #Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques #Theoretical computer science #VC dimension #cs.DS #cs.LG #stat.ML
- Unpredictability of AI: On the Impossibility of Accurately Predicting All Actions of a Smarter Agent
2020/03/01 by Roman V. Yampolskiy · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Artificial intelligence #Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference #Business #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #Computer science #Computer security #Data science #Field (mathematics) #Impossibility #Mathematics #Political science #Process (computing) #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics #Risk analysis (engineering)
- On the Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner theorem and its limitations
2018/12/13 by Bertrand I. Halperin · 4 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Analytic proof #Ferromagnetism #Impossibility #Order (exchange) #Quantum #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Quantum many-body systems #Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics #Superconductivity #Superfluidity #cond-mat.stat-mech
- On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
2017/03/31 by Ben Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Ben, Miles Brundage +17 · 11 voices
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms #Computer science #Credence #Economics #Epistemology #Impossibility #Law #Machine learning #Margin (machine learning) #Mathematical economics #Outcome (game theory) #Philosophy #Political science #Positive economics #cs.CY #physics.pop-ph
- Frontier Jerusalem
2014/04/01 by Rachel Busbridge · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Arab–Israeli conflict #Archaeology #Frontier #History #Impossibility #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Jewish state #Judaism #Law #Middle East Politics and Society #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Sovereignty #State (computer science) #Status quo
- Extreme nonlocality with one photon
2009/11/30 by Libby Heaney, Adan Cabello, Adán Cabello +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Bell state #Bell test experiments #Bell's theorem #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Field (mathematics) #Impossibility #Law #Limit (mathematics) #Local hidden variable theory #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Photon #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum nonlocality #Qubit #Theoretical physics #quant-ph
- Negativity and Contextuality are Equivalent Notions of Nonclassicality
2007/10/31 by Robert W. Spekkens · 7 citations
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Impossibility #Kochen–Specker theorem #Mathematics #Negativity effect #Philosophy and History of Science #Physics #Psychology #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum mechanics #Representation (politics) #Statistical physics #Task (project management) #Theoretical physics #quant-ph
- From Time-symmetric Microscopic Dynamics to Time-asymmetric Macroscopic Behavior: An Overview
2007/09/05 by Joel L. Lebowitz, Lebowitz, Joel L. · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Attractor #Chaotic #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Dynamical systems theory #Ergodic theory #FOS: Physical sciences #Impossibility #Instability #Law #Mathematics #Physics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quantum mechanics #Second law of thermodynamics #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Statistical physics #T-symmetry #Theoretical physics #Time evolution #cond-mat.stat-mech
- Comparing clusterings—an information based distance
2006/12/26 by Marina Meilă · 104 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research #Axiom #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #Bounded function #Cluster analysis #Combinatorics #Comparability #Discrete mathematics #Impossibility #Intuition #Mathematics #Metric space #Statistics #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
- The Impossibility of the Given: Representations of Merit and Emptiness in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
2005/11/01 by Wendi Adamek, Wendi L. Adamek · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Art history #Buddhism #China #Chinese history and philosophy #Classics #Emptiness #History #Impossibility #Japanese History and Culture #Karma #Law #Miracle #Philosophy #Political science #Religious studies #Sinicization #Sociology #Theology
- How generic scale invariance influences quantum and classical phase transitions
2004/03/31 by D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, Thomas Vojta · 16 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Impossibility #Material Dynamics and Properties #Phase (matter) #Phase diagram #Phase transition #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum #Quantum critical point #Quantum mechanics #Quantum phase transition #Quantum phases #Scale invariance #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Theoretical physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el
- Variation and Change in Spanish
2000/11/30 by Ralph Penny · 9 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Catalan #Romance languages #Variation (astronomy) #Romance #Impossibility #Portuguese #History #Linguistics #Language change #Context (archaeology) #Deixis #Geography #Literature #Art #Philosophy #Political science #Archaeology
- Projective Systems of Noncommutative Lattices as a Pregeometric Substratum
1998/10/14 by Giovanni Landi, Fedele Lizzi, Landi, Giovanni +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Combinatorics #Complex projective space #Computer science #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #Impossibility #Inverse limit #Limit (mathematics) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Noncommutative geometry #Physics #Position (finance) #Projective space #Projective test #Pure mathematics #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Space (punctuation) #Topology (electrical circuits) #gr-qc #hep-lat #math-ph #math.MP #quant-ph
- Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
1985/04/01 by Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, Nancy Lynch +1 · 281 citations
Computer Science · #Artificial intelligence #Asynchronous communication #Byzantine fault tolerance #Computer network #Computer science #Consensus #Contrast (vision) #Distributed computing #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #Fault tolerance #Impossibility #Mobile Agent-Based Network Management #Multi-agent system #Optimization and Search Problems #Political science #Process (computing) #Protocol (science) #Quantum Byzantine agreement #Theoretical computer science #Value (mathematics)
- Efficient mechanisms for bilateral trading
1983/04/01 by Roger B. Myerson, Roger B Myerson, Mark A. Satterthwaite +1 · 16 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Allocative efficiency #Artificial intelligence #Auction Theory and Applications #Bayesian probability #Computer science #Econometrics #Economics #Ex-ante #Finance #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Impossibility #Incentive #Incentive compatibility #Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems #Mathematical economics #Mechanism design #Microeconomics #Profit (economics) #Subsidy #Valuation (finance)
- Tesauro's Poetics: Through the Looking Glass
1963/01/01 by Eugenio Donato · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Renaissance and Early Modern Studies #Poetics #Impossibility #Tragedy (event) #Literature #Nothing #Philosophy #Morality #Subject (documents) #Dialectic #Poetry #Pride #Pleasure #Taste #Art #Epistemology #Law #Theology