On March 13th, 2026 with 67 comments
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion...
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On January 15th, 2026 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder,...
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On December 24th, 2025 with 56 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader MrFreak shares a public radio interview from 2015 discussing artificial intelligence as inference over abstract inputs, along with...
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On November 20th, 2025 with 259 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out,...
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On October 30th, 2025 with 248 comments
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Today's cutting-edge theory -- quantum gravity -- suggests that even space and time aren't fundamental. They...
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On October 27th, 2025 with 35 comments
Mathematicians have identified the first shape that cannot pass through itself. Jakob Steininger and Sergey Yurkevich described the Noperthedron in a paper...
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On October 20th, 2025 with 41 comments
An anonymous reader writes: "Hoisted by their own GPTards." That's how Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did...
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On October 15th, 2025 with 165 comments
Math teachers across American schools are contending with a classroom disruption that has proven impossible to contain. The numbers six and seven now trigger...
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On September 9th, 2025 with 215 comments
The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress shows U.S. high school seniors' math and reading scores at their lowest in decades, with nearly half...
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On September 8th, 2025 with 60 comments
University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT-5 could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates, a...
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On July 21st, 2025 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader shares a blog post: The International Mathematical Olympiad is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has...
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On June 30th, 2025 with 54 comments
Thousands of Norwegians briefly believed they had won massive Eurojackpot prizes after a manual coding error by Norsk Tipping mistakenly multiplied winnings by...
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On June 16th, 2025 with 60 comments
Researchers have built a breakthrough random number generator that solves a critical problem: for the first time, every step of creating random numbers can be...
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On June 11th, 2025 with 80 comments
A mathematician on Reddit calculated that if all 8.2 billion humans were blended into a uniform goo, the resulting meatball would form a sphere just under 1...
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On April 27th, 2025 with 71 comments
A new DARPA project called expMath "aims to jumpstart math innovation with the help of AI," writes The Register. America's "Defense Advanced Research...
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On March 26th, 2025 with 111 comments
JPMorgan Chase used a quantum computer from Honeywell's Quantinuum to generate and mathematically certify truly random numbers -- an advancement that could...
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On February 21st, 2025 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Fourteen-year-old Aaryan Shukla cruised through six mental math calculation world records in a single day,...
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On February 12th, 2025 with 100 comments
Children working in India's fruit and vegetable markets can perform complex mental calculations with ease, yet struggle with basic written math tests that...
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On January 10th, 2025 with 49 comments
Three mathematicians have developed a breakthrough method for proving whether numbers can be written as fractions, solving a problem that has puzzled...
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On December 17th, 2024 with 105 comments
Ars Technica's Beth Mole reports: Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic...
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On November 16th, 2024 with 78 comments
Slashdot reader jjslash brings word that Casio "has reintroduced its iconic calculator watch featuring a retro design with green text on a negative LCD and a...
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On November 13th, 2024 with 82 comments
Leading AI systems are solving less than 2% of problems in a new advanced mathematics benchmark, revealing significant limitations in their reasoning...
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On November 1st, 2024 with 124 comments
Australian mathematicians have proven the famous "infinite monkey theorem" impossible within the universe's lifespan. The theorem suggests monkeys typing...
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On October 25th, 2024 with 29 comments
Former Nvidia engineer Luke Durant, working with the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), recently discovered the largest known prime number:...
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On October 23rd, 2024 with 116 comments
Theoretical Physicist Jacques Treiner, from the University of Paris Cite, explains why you should run in the rain: ... Let p represent the number of drops per...
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On October 21st, 2024 with 108 comments
Apple's latest iOS update has removed the "C" button from its Calculator app, replacing it with a backspace function. The change, part of iOS 18, has sparked...
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On October 21st, 2024 with 61 comments
chalsall writes: After more than six years of work since the last discovery, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has found the 52nd known Mersenne...
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On October 8th, 2024 with 115 comments
Researchers at BitEnergy AI, Inc. have developed Linear-Complexity Multiplication (L-Mul), a technique that reduces AI model power consumption by up to 95% by...
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On September 4th, 2024 with 32 comments
Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, published on Tuesday, indicates that professional economic forecasters tend to overestimate their accuracy in...
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On July 22nd, 2024 with 60 comments
The United States has claimed victory at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Chiang Mai, Thailand, marking its first win in over two decades. The...
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"If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight." -- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
