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Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth
...on college-level math and science topics. Some of the questions involved images and text. Across all tasks and experimental setups, debate always led to more accuracy. That was encouraging, and...
How Is Cell Death Essential to Life?
...the mic with my cohost, Janna Levin, exploring some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we ask cellular biologist Shai Shaham, how can...
The Year in Physics
...on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be...
The Year in Biology
...math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this might be relevant to...
The Year in Computer Science
...recently posted on the math discussion website MathOverflow. “[Someone] asked this question and I happened to know the tools to answer it,” Agol said. “Then I was realizing that this...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...mathematics behind what he calls “the extreme fragility of interdependency.” In a system of interconnected networks like the economy, city infrastructure or the human body, their model indicates that a...
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
...to each different polling site,” said Topaz. Porter notes that mathematicians have had success using sophisticated mathematical techniques to quantify gerrymandering, the deliberate skewing of legislative districts. He sees the...
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
...to planetary motion, but felt out of his depth mathematically. “It was really exciting to see the mathematicians trying to bring their expertise down into the engineering side,” he said....
When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again.
...Harvard University, he was told he could not skip the psychology department’s required math courses. Feeling that he’d already covered the material in college, he switched to computer science, completing...