The planet we live on is a remarkable place, with incredible things happening everywhere, all the time. But have you ever wondered how or why these things occur? How the Earth was created? Why lightning strikes? How fossils form? What causes...
Have you ever wondered what life would have been like in the time of the dinosaurs? How roman gladiators felt when they stepped into the arena facing almost-certain death? What happened on board the Titanic on the night it sunk? Our lives today are...
What were the first cities of the ancient world like? How big were dinosaur teeth? When was sound first introduced to the cinema-goer’s experience? Why was the Terracotta Army found buried beside the tomb of a Chinese Emperor? How It Works Book of...
Editor’s Preface
In late summer of 1999, I first encountered the text version of this collecton of esoteric materials. As I began to read the files, I realized that this was a very important work from all over the world, and I had run onto the...
For ten weeks during the autumn of 1888, London’s East End was gripped by the terror of history’s most notorious serial killer. Despite public outcry, the culprit was never caught, and the mystery of Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate...
We humans have always been fascinated by our world, and over hundreds of thousands of years we've built up a body of knowledge about the things around us, so we know what they are, how they work, how they interact, and what the processes are...
Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have f i xed activation functions on nodes (“neurons”), KANs have...
Throughout history, monarchs have had a huge impact on the world, whether uniting nations or tearing them apart. Some have inherited great power, while others have fought to take what they saw as rightfully theirs. There have been kings who...