Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger | Quanta Magazine | Jordana Cepelewicz ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Calegari's Notices essay mentioned in the article.
LLMs still don't understand the word "no", much like their creators ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...
AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data? By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems. ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
An interesting read....
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement ( www.quantamagazine.org )
How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness ( www.quantamagazine.org )
This year's Abel Prize has just been awarded to Michael Talagrand. I didn't knew about his work, but it seems really interesting and he made an effort to make it really accessible both to read and access.
Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
The Mysterious Math of Billiards Tables | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Physicists Finally Find a Problem Only Quantum Computers Can Do | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Unfortunately not the best headline. No, quantum supremacy has not been proven, exactly. What this is is another kind of candidate problem, but one that's universal, in the sense that a classical algorithm for it could be used to solve all other BQP problems (so BQP=P). That would include Shor's algorithm, and would make Q-day...
New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
New Breakthrough Brings Matrix Multiplication Closer to Ideal | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
What Is the Nature of Time? | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now It’s Falling Apart. | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
‘Entropy Bagels’ and Other Complex Structures Emerge From Simple Rules | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable ( www.quantamagazine.org )
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
