1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (416+ words) 10,000 AI agents found a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which mathematicians have worked on for decades. The problem is one of six Millennium Problems each carrying a prize of $1 million. If the result is confirmed, it is the first time…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (982+ words) That the news media are one long doomscroll makes us all a little dumb. But how unbalanced are they? I have built a news scale. I'm all thumbs, but I can now build houses, I wrote a couple of weeks…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (771+ words) There's a fear that constantly nags at the back of my mind. It makes me check and double-check, compulsively, and it never helps. Then one day it was gone. There's a worry that constantly gnaws at the back of my…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (297+ words) Since generative AI reached widespread use, many have warned that the technology would wipe out jobs on a large scale. Researchers at Stanford have analyzed payroll records for millions of Americans. Employment has grown by about 6% since late 2022, including in…...