Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time(quantamagazine.org)

8 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography(quantamagazine.org)

23 points by DocFeind 1 year ago | 5 comments

A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized(quantamagazine.org)

233 points by theafh 3 years ago | 292 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity(quantamagazine.org)

120 points by jandrewrogers 1 year ago | 8 comments

Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories(quantamagazine.org)

23 points by nsoonhui 1 year ago | 1 comments

Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking(quantamagazine.org)

533 points by sonabinu 1 year ago | 303 comments

Quanta Magazine Q&A with mathematician David Bessis arguing that everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits(quantamagazine.org)

496 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 127 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how a collaborative team of amateur programmers proved the value of the fifth busy beaver number, BB(5).

In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible(quantamagazine.org)

130 points by unprovable 5 days ago | 80 comments

Quanta Magazine explainer on Hilbert space, the abstract mathematical realm used to describe quantum phenomena.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.