Bitcoin miners are quietly doing the math and defecting. The power, the cooling, the fiber, the substations. All the stuff that took a decade to build for hashing SHA-256 turns out to be exactly what ...

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...