New public art series, Math on Main, coming to SoMa in Little Rock

A new year-long public art and community learning series is coming to SoMa this year— Math on Main, a walkable outdoor ...

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

Researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore, Columbia and TogetherAI have developed a training technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary models or infrastructure ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world—an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

Certified Roth Conversion Specialist™ (CRCS™) Designation Launches to Address Growing Planning Gap in Financial Services

The Certified Roth Conversion Specialist™ (CRCS™) designation launches to certify advisors in Roth conversion analysis ...

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A Teacher’s Review of 99Math

I recently stumbled upon 99Math, a new online math tool that’s got educators talking. It’s designed to make math more enjoyable for kids, blending games with learning in a pretty clever way. At its ...
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...
IEEE

Wide-Gap Frequency Hopping Sequences With No-Hit-Zone: Bounds and Their Optimal Constructions

Abstract: Frequency hopping sequences (FHSs) play a crucial role in frequency hopping (FH) communication systems due to their strong anti-interference ability, low interception probability, high ...
IEEE

Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Sequences as 2D Videos

Abstract: Dynamic 3D point cloud sequences serve as one of the most common and practical representation modalities of dynamic real-world environments. However, their unstructured nature in both ...
Inside Higher Ed

About That UCSD Math Report

The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to need remedial math ...
Education Week

4 Research-Backed Tips for Mastering Math Facts

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in upper elementary grades, they should be able to produce the answer to 6x3 ...