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OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model solved ten open maths problems, shipping Lean proofs on GitHub for roughly $2,000 in compute OpenAI says an internal version of its next major model, called ...

Researchers have constructed finite measurement configurations capable of ruling out a specific class of alternatives to quantum theory, challenging deterministic noncontextual models with outcome ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently heralded victory by ...

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is so widely accepted that modern mathematicians hardly think about it. But believing in its core principles didn’t come easily. How do mathematicians decide that something ...

Daniel Glasscock, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics in the Kennedy College of Sciences, has been interested by Ramsey theory since his master’s degree studies at Central European ...

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