524 points by rzk | 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.
402 points by pseudolus | 350 comments
Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
318 points by drcwpl | 81 comments
A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.
335 points by isaacfrond | 117 comments
Quanta Magazine explainer on manifolds, the mathematical spaces conceived by Bernhard Riemann that underpin modern geometry and physics.
339 points by nsoonhui | 146 comments
Quanta Magazine article explaining entropy, 200 years after its introduction, as a measure of ignorance rather than an objective property of the world.