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New framework helps AI systems recover from mistakes and find optimal solutions

If you use consumer AI systems, you have likely experienced something like AI "brain fog": You are well into a conversation ...
TheServerSide

Java double decimal precision

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The precision of a double in Java is 10-324 decimal places, although true mathematical precision ...
Scientific American

Deep Math from String Theory Appears in Clashing Black Holes

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
The New York Times

Abel Prize Awarded to Japanese Mathematician Who Abstracted Abstractions

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems. By Kenneth Chang Masaki ...
Quanta Magazine

‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the ...
Nature

The brain’s building blocks for understanding social interactions

The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis functions to store information about how people interact — for example, how they work ...
Yale Environment 360

A geometry masterpiece: Yale prof solves part of math’s ‘Rosetta Stone’

Sam Raskin has wrapped his head around a math problem so complex it took five academic studies — and more than 900 pages — to solve. The results are a sweeping, game-changing math proof that was ...