The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

I love Nier Automata. You probably love Nier Automata. We all love Nier Automata. But how much Nier Automata is too much Nier Automata? Following last month's The First Descendant collaboration and ...

Among the many rumors about the upcoming iPhone 17 is that it will feature a new camera bar design across the back of the body. It’s a major change from the upper-corner placement that has been on ...

Cellular Automata (CA) are powerful simulation tools that operate through discrete elements and associations. CA undirected neighborhood searches may produce specific grain shapes (e.g., octahedral, ...

ABSTRACT: The paper continues the research on algorithms for generating nondeterministic finite automata possessing the following property (the so-called walibad property): among their covering ...

1 Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China. 2 Algebra and Discrete Mathematics Department, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

NieR: Automata is a highly regarded game. It’s widely considered to be the one of the best hits that Yoko Taro and PlatinumGames have ever produced, and it’s hard to argue given the millions of units ...