This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

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In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...

Test-blind admissions, grade inflation, and mandated admissions from underrepresented high schools are destroying higher education.

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At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Artificial intelligence technology is starting to drive profound change for the economy, including in business capital and ...

Odyssey Math Tuition, a tuition agency in Singapore, has expanded its offerings with H2 math tuition online courses designed ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien ...

Chinese mathematician Wu Meng has returned to China after several years in Finland. He is now a full-time professor of ...

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions ...