Tag: ai
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What Combinatorial Chemistry can Teach us about the AI revolution in Mathematics and Informatics
Michael T. M. Emmerich, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, September 2026 Chemistry has been an application field of mine for many years, including work on multi-objective optimisation and artificial intelligence in drug design [LMEW2023]. This is one reason why the present discussion about AI in mathematics and informatics feels familiar to me. Drug discovery has already…
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The Gumbel Distribution, Extreme Rainfall, and the Euler–Mascheroni Constant
Nature doesn’t just have averages; it has extremes—the hottest day, the strongest wind, the largest daily rainfall, the highest flood. For extremes, a universal statistical law often appears: the Gumbel distribution. In this post, we meet it through a simple and realistic story about annual maximum rainfall, learn how a basic normalization makes its shape…
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2-D Hypervolume Subset Selection in Python
Hypervolume Subset Selection Problem (HSSP) is a dynamic programming algorithm used to select a subset of points from a non-dominated 2D Pareto front. This subset maximizes the hypervolume (or dominated area in 2-D) covered with respect to a reference point that bounds this area from above to make it finite. Originally proposed by Auger et…
