Nutrition and obesity researchers often dichotomize or discretize continuous independent variables to conduct an analysis of variance to examine group differences. We describe consequences associated ...

Thermodynamic resources, beyond their well-known usefulness in work extraction and other thermodynamic tasks, are often important also in tasks that are not evidently thermodynamic. Here we develop a ...

We talk a lot about quantum computation and quantum key distribution here at Ars, but when we do this, we’re usually talking about a discrete logic system. That is, the quantum system uses a set of ...