Ferguson became so delighted with Making History that he has joined forces with Muzzy Lane to design a new game. Due out in 2008, this one will model modern, real-world conflicts such as Iraq ...

Using eye-tracking technology, MIT cognitive scientists have obtained the first direct evidence that people use a process called counterfactual simulation to imagine how a situation could have ...

A novel approach called Counterfactual Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) has been developed to tackle the persistent issue of imbalanced data in healthcare. Traditional models ...

A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise ...

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If I approach each dream as a potential counterfactual, I can ask what the dream simulation is trying to undo and then work from there. Of course, not all dreams are counterfactuals.