Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he ...

But even if you disagree with our critique of today’s math curriculum, there is a deeper problem. We never had the ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

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Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

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Researchers and users of LLMs have long been aware that AI models have a troubling tendency to tell people what they want to hear, even if that means being less accurate. But many reports of this ...

The content in parentheses next to the model's name represents reasoning effort and the max tokens, respectively, with the default value for max tokens being 10K. This section evaluates models in a ...

In 2011, an anonymous 4chan poster asked how many episodes of a particular anime they would have to watch if they wanted to watch the minimum episodes in every possible way. The problem with this is ...

Our analysis of previous datasets reveals severe biases towards easy queries, with frequent failures to generate any correct response for the most challenging queries. This primarily arises from their ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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