invariant

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Essentially, an ensemble of neurons with mixed selectivity can accommodate many more dimensions of information about a task than a population of neurons with invariant functions.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2024

We get universal power laws, and the system is scale invariant: if you take a photograph of the fluid flowing through the pores and blow it up, it looks like the original.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

Holding that number invariant required balancing out any population shifts within a state.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 2, 2021

Conway’s discovery of a new knot invariant — used to tell different knots apart — called the Conway polynomial became an important topic of research in topology.

From Nature • May 22, 2020

Second, developmental sequences are not invariant, so examples pigeonholed under the same stage are inevitably heterogeneous.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond