Optical illusions are fascinating puzzles that are designed to trick our brains into seeing something that isn’t quite what it appears to be. These puzzles reveal how complex and powerful our minds ...

President Trump uttered a torrent of questionable numbers during his address to the nation Wednesday night. (Doug Mills / Associated Press) Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump's use of ...

Much attention has been focused on Donald Trump’s use of words — that is, his peculiar style of oratory. But more attention should be paid to another feature of his discourse: his use of numbers.

How do people balance competing principles of distributive justice when allocating limited goods? This study applies a novel methodological approach—distributional survey experiments (DSEs)—to examine ...

Lotto is a game of chance, but can strategy also come into play? We asked statisticians and looked at the data to find out how to win Powerball. Powerball is all luck—jackpot odds are 1 in 292 million ...

Losing your phone can leave you in panic mode, especially when the battery dies. The good news is that both Apple and Android offer built-in tools that help you track a missing device even when it is ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

Abstract: The k-means algorithm calculates the distances be-tween all points and centers at every iteration, which results in a significant amount of wasted work and slows down the algorithm. Many ...

A Michigan woman won a big Powerball prize, and it was all thanks to numbers picked by ChatGPT. Tammy Carvey, a 45-year-old from Wyandotte, Michigan, said she turned to AI for help, and the result ...

WYANDOTTE, Mich. – A Wyandotte woman used artificial intelligence to pick her Michigan Lottery numbers and ended up winning a $100,000 prize. Tammy Carvey, 45, matched four white balls and the ...

A Virginia woman won big at the Powerball lottery — using numbers picked by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to The New York Post, in a story that’s only possible in the 21st Century. “I’m like, ChatGPT, ...

FILE - A rack with cards bettors can use to choose their own numbers to purchase lottery tickets for the Saturday Oct. 29, drawing of the Powerball lottery, are seen on a counter at a market in ...