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The Math Superstar Who’s Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (199+ words) Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he’s working on the most important problem of his career. When he won the Fields Medal last week, Jacob Tsimerman accepted the most prestigious honor in math wearing a powder-blue tuxedo…...
Activists Push For California Schools To Teach 'Girl Math'
3+ week, 1+ day ago (297+ words) SACRAMENTO, CA — Buoyed by recent efforts to teach "Black English" in California schools, a new coalition of activists demanded that "Girl Math" be officially incorporated into the state's K-12 math curriculum. The Girl Math Liberation Front argued that traditional mathematics…...
Cosmologists: “We are STILL right! Dark energy does exist!”
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (447+ words) The headlines of the first press release is especially insulting to the very concept of the scientific method: - Royal Astronomical Society: ‘Crisis averted’ as experts confirm universe’s expansion IS accelerating The 2025 study that questioned the existence of dark energy — claiming…...
Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting to outsource work to robots
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (875+ words) Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason Kelly. It felt like an outlandish bet at the time. Things…...
AI's Coming Reality Check: When The Physics Finally Hits The Hype
2+ mon, 19+ hour ago (994+ words) In five years, we’ll all likely be chuckling and shaking our heads over AI. Because today, the tech feels free and limitless, doesn’t it? People are generating endless content: images, videos, memes, code snippets, social posts. Companies are bolting AI…...
Great Idea: A New Kind of Academic Publishing Dedicated to Critiquing Academic Arguments
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (604+ words) I've written a lot about the problems in academia in general, and the disaster modern scientific disciplines face due to the corruption of institutions and scientific journals. Obviously, I am hardly alone in my concern about this problem, and I'm…...
CA University Professors Discover Students Can't Do Basic Math, Demand Return of Standardized Tests
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (317+ words) On Tuesday, hundreds of faculty members from the University of California (UC) system signed an open letter demanding that the university system return to standardized math testing during college admissions. The reason: students attempting to enter college cannot do basic…...
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+ mon, 4+ day ago (1033+ words) Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH 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 wash out…...
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (225+ words) Google Deepmind's new framework AlphaProof Nexus has autonomously solved nine out of 353 open Erdős 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 Integer…...
OpenAI Model Solves Math Problem Humans Couldn’t Crack For 80 Years
2+ mon, 1+ week 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. OpenAI announced on Wednesday that one of its reasoning…...