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Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

20 November 2019

Game theory helps calculate the probabilities of an outcome in adversarial situations, and we use several games as models – but now there’s one that can cover many situations
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If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

20 November 2019

Inattentional blindness, a kind of selective focus, is so strong that if you don’t notice new objects in your sight line quickly, you may never see them at all

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