There are no such things as coincidences.
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There are no such things as coincidences.
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Why scientists can’t quit chalk, even in the digital age.
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Three computer scientists disprove a long-standing idea about imperfect information.
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Some of the power of math lies in the very fact that it’s made up.
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Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.
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New results break with decades of conventional wisdom for the gradient descent algorithm.
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For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to exist.
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Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big?
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Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.
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