Proper estimation of predictive uncertainty is fundamental in applications that involve critical decisions. Uncertainty can be used to assess reliability of model predictions, trigger human ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

Cognitive dissonance happens when you hold two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time — like loving both hamburgers and cows. Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology first ...

One town’s effort to make pricey items accessible and encourage people to buy less stuff seems to be catching on. Credit... Supported by By Cara Buckley Photographs by Ryan David Brown Reporting from ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

2. What are the differences between disease-specific classification criteria and diagnostic criteria? Classification criteria are intended to be used in a medical research setting. Diagnostic criteria ...

Abstract: With the advent of Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, academic librarians have already begun to participate in all aspects of MOOC. During the resource construction of a self-built MOOC ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

Public libraries have always been busy spots, but they’ve grown even more so in the years since the pandemic. They’ve become not just spots for homework or book browsing but free co-working spaces, ...

SOON after the Boston Medical Library was organized on August 20, 1875, with Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes as president and Dr. James R. Chadwick as librarian, two rooms on the first floor of No. 5 ...