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Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You’re Missing unscrambles a technical topic – online algorithms – and makes it easy for young readers to grasp. Our internet habits can put us ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Fears of an AI bubble overlook where tech experts believe a lot of real value in the AI economy will come from: not large language models themselves, but in what we'll build on top of them. It's early ...

Liam Thompson created the world's largest dry ice bubble for science and fun. ‘A Huge Win’: Trump Admin Praises Major Settlement California's Death Valley breaks 115-year-old rainfall record ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The biggest bout of volatility in U.S. stocks in months has revealed cracks in the artificial intelligence-related rally, raising questions about whether the market has ...

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Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...