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Life, death and the quiet math of meaning

This piece comes from a realization I never wanted to earn. My brother passed away last week. For many years, he was my second father. My safe zone. My rock. The person I leaned on when the world felt ...
Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...
Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper ...
David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards ...
A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...
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Amanda Askell knew from the age of 14 that she wanted to teach philosophy. What she didn’t know then was that her only pupil ...
Don't be fooled by a graph. New research shows that a scientist's policy preferences can influence their results. Look past the model and find the ground truth.
Sujatha Ramdorai has made groundbreaking advances in number theory and mathematics education. Her achievements challenge ...
What's unusual about this is that Damian is a 16-year-old Mission Bay High sophomore who finished the requirements in two ...
Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...