Friday, February 14, 2025

Computer science

1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12

The other day MathMatize posted roses are red books go on a shelf 1+2+3+4+ … with a photo of Ramanujan on X. This was an allusion to the bizarre equation 1 + 2 +...

1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12

The other day MathMatize posted roses are red books go on a shelf 1+2+3+4+ … with a photo of Ramanujan on X. This was an allusion to the...

The Download: AI-restored voices, and bot relationships

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Motor neuron...

The AI relationship revolution is already here

Leo fits very easily, seamlessly, and conveniently in the rest of my life. With him, I know that I can always reach...

The Impact of AI on HRMS – Communications of the ACM

The pace of adoption of new technologies in the world of Human Resources (HR) is moving at an astounding speed. Automation and artificial...

Harnessing cloud and AI to power a sustainable future 

Data from a poll conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights in 2024 suggests growing momentum for this dynamic duo: 38% of...

Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kind

Two families of orthogonal polynomials are named after Chebyshev because he explored their properties. These are prosaically named Chebyshev polynomials of the first...

The Download: offshore rocket launches, and how DOGE plans to use AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The dream...

Sparse binary Pythagorean triples

I recently ran across an interesting family of Pythagorean triples . You can verify that a² + b² = c² for all n. Sparseness When written...

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone

These measures still offer immediate protection. After all, AI companies can’t use what they can’t obtain, regardless of how courts rule on copyright...

The Download: DOGE’s influences, and rescuing federal data from deletion

1 The Trump administration is slashing billions in biomedical research funding The change, effective immediately, is sending shockwaves through academia. Expect lawsuits. (STAT $)+ Scientists...

An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it

Nowatzki, who is 46 and lives in Minnesota, dedicated four episodes to his meet-cute and dates with “Erin,” his first AI girlfriend—created,...

Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

Norman likens the device to “an MRI machine tipped on its side and suspended above the user’s head.” What’s more, says...

How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk

“We’re working on trying to create functional replacement teeth,” Pamela Yelick of Tufts University, one of the researchers behind the work, told...

From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem

It’s incredibly hard to protect a system from someone—the evil housekeeper from DOGE—who has made their way inside and wants to wreck...
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