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Science
NewsPicks AI: Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing.Take addition. It’s a...
Security
NewsPicks AI: Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting position of the pinball represents the data on...
Science
NewsPicks AI: Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted that among hash...
AI
NewsPicks AI: The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention...
