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 ...

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 ...
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 ...
Yahoo

When trillion‑member libraries meet physics: what diversity really means

In early-stage drug discovery, library size matters because biology is sparse. For most targets, only a tiny fraction of chemical space will bind at all, and an even smaller fraction will bind with ...
CNN

These ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...
The New York Times

Can Math Be Violent? For 3 Scholars, the Answer Was Yes.

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
The New York Times

Math, Revealed

Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the math behind it and follows it to places you wouldn’t expect. Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...
Forbes

It’s Time To Change The Math Calculus: How The U.S. Can Finally Get Math Education Right

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...
eLife

Force transmission through the inner kinetochore is enhanced by centromeric DNA sequences

Recombinantly wrapped NCPs with W601 or CCEN DNA. A) Sequences of the W601 and CCEN DNA used to wrap histone octamers. The black text is W601 DNA, the blue text is the Mif2 footprint within CDEII ...