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Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Siwei Lyu receives funding from the National Science Foundation and DARPA. Yan Ju receives funding from US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Semantic Forensic (SemaFor) program, under ...
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.