In 1996 Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo made an incredible discovery: sometimes two games that each end in loss individually can be combined into a winning strategy. This paradox is no mere ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work ...

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Lila Sciences, a startup founded in 2023, has raised $115 million in new funding from investors, including chipmaker Nvidia’s (NVDA) venture arm, to create “scientific superintelligence.” According to ...

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In 1997, clouds of smoke hung over the rainforests of Indonesia as an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania was burned to make way for agriculture, the fires exacerbated by drought. Smothered in haze, ...

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about making government more efficient. Perhaps receiving the most attention has been the announcement by president-elect Donald Trump of a Department of ...