A Layman's Thoughts on Programming: What is Abstraction

I will try to explain abstraction abstractly.Let's set aside the so-called programming abstractions like classes, interfaces, ...

The U.S. Government Isn’t Ready For Quantum-Powered Hackers

The threat of quantum computers to government systems, how AI is upending math and the ongoing Pentagon-Anthropic saga. All ...
Scientific American

The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming ...

Do Algorithms Leverage Business? Thinking from the Day I Was Moved by the Fast Fourier Transform (Part 1)

Introduction: The Wall Where Effort Doesn't Lead to GrowthIf the output of computational processing is leveraged by algorithms, couldn't the output of a business also be leveraged by algorithms? This ...
OfficeChai

OpenAI Has Found A Far Faster Way To Multiply Matrices, The Math That Underpins All Of Modern AI

A new paper claims the theoretical speed limit for matrix multiplication is much lower than anyone had proven. It hasn’t been ...
The Conversation

From equations to Instagram feeds: how ‘algorithm’ changed its meaning

Algorithms are central to modern mathematics and computer science. They are explicit procedures valued for their clarity, efficiency and beauty. Beyond these fields, however, the word “algorithm” is ...

A Single Ball on a Billiard Table Can Theoretically Perform Any Computation

According to mathematicians Eva Miranda of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain and Isaac Ramos of ETH Zürich in ...