Turning the Psychedelic Experience into a Math Problem

DMT. When the high priest of psychedelics Terence McKenna first took DMT in the 1960s, he noted that his understanding of the ...
24/7 Wall St.

Her Mother Has Alzheimer’s. Can They Afford a Memory Care Facility at $95,000 a Year?

Karen’s mother has Alzheimer’s disease, and the family has reached the point where living independently is no longer an ...

Model routing is a fix for AI overspending. That's a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic

Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a ...
New Scientist

The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...
Education Week

Supporting Struggling Math Students Means Building Their Number Sense—and Confidence

As students move up through the grades in elementary and middle school, math marches relentlessly forward—whether they’re ready or not. Math is a hierarchical field, building sequentially on prior ...
Medical Xpress

Researchers use statistics and math to understand how the brain works

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...
Edutopia

How Number Lines Can Boost Mathematical Understanding

When a kindergartner is asked to solve the equation 7 + 6, the numbers alone don’t always make clear what they’re being asked to do: determine what number is six numbers greater than seven. To figure ...
Forbes

Can Legal Marijuana Use Still Cost You A Job?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Legal marijuana use does not always translate into protection in the hiring process. A ...
The New York Times

German Mathematician Wins Abel Prize for Number Theory Work

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry. By Kenneth Chang A German mathematician, Gerd Faltings, is this year’s winner ...
Quanta Magazine

Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...
TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...