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NewsPicks AI: The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves
In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves. As they...
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NewsPicks AI: The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and...
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NewsPicks AI: What Is Thirst? | WIRED
“There are only a couple of things that are so important for your body that there’s a completely innate drive to get it...
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NewsPicks AI: The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program
But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this question through what he called...
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NewsPicks AI: These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew...
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NewsPicks AI: This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
In 2023, Domokos—along with his graduate students Gergő Almádi and Krisztina Regős, and Robert Dawson of Saint Mary’s University in Canada—proved that it...
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NewsPicks AI: Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps...
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NewsPicks AI: For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with a slightly smaller...
