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 Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the […]

 A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no

 Researchers have discovered ways around a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and beauty in digital images. The post The AI Tools

 The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been

 In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. The post

 How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this

 For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to

 Why did mammals, grasses and some other groups of organisms explode in diversity only after millions of years? The evolutionary

 Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope

 New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm. The post Risky Giant Steps Can Solve