Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

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Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Your brain calculates complex physics every day and you don't even notice. This neuromorphic chip taps into the same idea.

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The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Dyscalculia, characterized by deficits in number sense and calculation skills, affects approximately 5–7% of the population and often persists into adulthood. A team from the University of Barcelona ...

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When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. Cardiologist: 9 American foods you 'couldn't pay ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...