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Since UC dumbed down its admission standards by no longer requiring SAT scores, STEM professors have started complaining that a huge number of their students don't understand middle school math.

2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (1033+ words) Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @Daniel Alman PGH Since #UC dumbed down its admission standards by no longer requiring SAT scores, #STEM professors have started complaining that a huge number of their students don't understand middle school #math. And then…...

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Google Deepmind's Alpha Proof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (225+ words) Google Deepmind's new framework Alpha Proof Nexus has autonomously solved nine out of 353 open Erd's problems it attempted, including two questions that had gone unanswered for 56 years. The system also proved 44 out of 492 open conjectures from the Online Encyclopedia of…...

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Open AI Model Solves Math Problem Humans Couldn't Crack For 80 Years

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (339+ words) The artificial intelligence boom is real. Sectors like healthcare, IT, education and many others are rapidly moving towards AI adoption. Now mathematicians have also acknowledged how AI is proving its mettle. Open AI announced on Wednesday that one of its…...

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AI Execs are Running a 1948 Circus Trick" Summary with assessment of accuracy and plausibility

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (670+ words) Timestamped Summary [00: 00] The "Massive Con": Dell introduces the premise that AI marketing is running a deliberate "move" first seen with Open AI's GPT-2 in 2019, where models are framed as "too dangerous to release" to generate hype. [01: 21] The 1948 Circus Trick: Introduces…...

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San Francisco restores 8th-grade algebra after equity experiment backfires

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (506+ words) San Francisco is restoring eighth-grade algebra after more than a decade, with the San Francisco Board of Education voting 4-3 Tuesday night to approve the change, reversing a controversial policy that had eliminated the course in middle schools in the name…...

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How To Become an AI Engineer in 2026

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (417+ words) To keep up with this shift, we built a brand'new AI Engineer career path at Codecademy. Our curriculum team analyzed current job postings and emerging AI'focused titles to determine exactly what modern AI Engineers need to know in 2026 and shaped…...

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Viral Throwback: When Math teachers protested calculators in classrooms 40 years ago

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (513+ words) An old newspaper page from 1986 has resurfaced on social media, showing math teachers protesting against the use of calculators in the classroom, until upper grades. Back then, the concerns were not only about students' academic dependency, but many feared that…...

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How to Teach AI to Reason Scientifically: AI Thinks Differently When Evidence Replaces Consensus

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (574+ words) AI Inherits Cultural Bias As a result, many of us inherit a naturalistic bias early on, and it tends to persist unless we are willing to invest considerable time engaging with dense and technical scientific debates. In practice, we are…...

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Dialogical Logic

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (87+ words) Dialogical logic is an approach to logic in which the meaning of the logical constants (connectives and quantifiers) and the notion of validity are explained in game-theoretic terms. Dialogical Logic Dialogical logic is an approach to logic in which the…...

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Support Vector Machines

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (112+ words) If the number of features is much greater than the number of samples, avoid over-fitting in choosing Kernel functions and regularization term is crucial. The disgronification tube gets affinated to the jacobiness factorization emplin. I prefer spinor machines. I can…...

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