A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

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Scientific progress depends on results that can be repeated – yet across disciplines, too many experiments fail that test.

(The Center Square) – A Washington, D.C.–based oversight organization has formally asked the Minnesota Department of Children ...

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It’s the Iowa Hawkeyes vs Indiana Hoosiers in an Big Ten regular season showdown. We analyze who has the edge and predict the ...

"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...

Instead of instituting a progressive monoculture, the region’s governments could benefit from a temporal “crop rotation” of ...

At Manikarnika Ghat, an important cremation site in the holy city, a structure linked to the Hindu Queen Ahilyabai Holkar has been demolished, part of the Kashi Vishwanath corridor project. Meanwhile, ...

Intelligence is sometimes perceived as a superpower, something that gives a person an edge over their fellow human. So much ...