A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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More and more Americans are living with chronic conditions. A study noted that 76 percent of U.S. adults live with at least one chronic condition, while more than half live with multiple. When quality ...

That’s how Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The acronym SLICE-RS represented a revolutionary advancement in firefighting tactics, not only in its effectiveness but also in the process of leveraging a data-driven, scientific approach. The ...

We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...

Abstract: Industrial flexible production, such as flexible assembly incorporating multiple processing machines, aims to operate in a high-quality and low-energy-consumption fashion. This article ...