An exploration of chaos theory in population dynamics showed that unpredictable systems can often be modelled using surprisingly simple mathematics. Michael P. H. Stumpf is in the School of ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that ...

Microplastics are present in virtually all major Canadian freshwater systems, from urban rivers to remote environments. A new model could provide some solutions.

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.

Richard Feynman restaurant meal math reveals a deeper truth about human choices. His hidden decision-making formula explains ...

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits ...

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 ...

For an academic researcher who first trained as a philosopher, then as a psychologist, Robyn Dawes was a practical fellow. He would tell a story from his time working in a psychiatric ward in the ...

Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...