As a result, researchers are exploring ways to embed better logic into AI. The goal isn’t so much to make LLMs smarter; it’s ...

A dude named Lenin assures us that his five year plan will be completed in 4 years and that progress is inevitable. Just tell me how many hundreds of thousands you plan to murder, because mass graves ...

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In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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“When you get a demo and something works 90% of the time, that’s just the first nine.” — Andrej Karpathy The “March of Nines” frames a common production reality: You can reach the first 90% ...

If GenAI is going to go mainstream and not just be a bubble that helps prop up the global economy for a couple of years, AI inference is going to have to come down in price – and do so faster than it ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His proofs have been called “disgusting,” but they go beyond what any human can do ...

The Tabulator was invented by Herman Hollerith (Columbia University EM 1879 PhD 1890), for the 1890 US Census, and was an essential part of the computing and business scene for nearly a century. Its ...