Edfinity Unbundles Textbooks, Creates A Learning Operating System

Edfinity is unbundling textbooks with a textbook-agnostic homework platform making practice, feedback and AI-enabled ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
Nature

Forget formalism: mathematics was built on infighting and emotional turmoil

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is the author of The Man from the Future (2021). In the weeks leading up to September 1891, ...
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MIT’s new heat-powered silicon chips achieve 99% accuracy in math calculations

Scientists in the US have created a tiny silicon chip that can perform mathematical operations in an electronic device using waste heat, and could transform energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal ...
Time

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ...
New York Magazine

What Does an SAT Score Mean Anymore?

In November 2022, Intelligencer published this story about MIT’s decision to require applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores again, two years after nearly every elite college in the country made test ...
Knowridge Science Report

MIT scientists turn waste heat into computing power with 99% accuracy

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated a surprising new way to compute—by using heat instead ...