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Mathematicians have discovered a problem they cannot solve. It's not that they're not smart enough; there simply is no answer. The problem has to do with machine learning — the type of ...

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A solution to P vs NP could unlock countless computational problems—or keep them forever out of reach. 1. On Monday, July 19, 2021, in the middle of another strange pandemic summer, a leading computer ...

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One of the oldest problems in computer science was just solved by a single cell. A group of researchers from Tokyo’s Keio University set out to use an amoeba to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...

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Mathematicians have discovered a problem they cannot solve. It's not that they're not smart enough; there simply is no answer. The problem has to do with machine learning — the type of ...

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James Christie’s devastating analysis of how the Law Commission misrepresented the work of engineers and computer scientists (myself included) to overturn the basic statutory requirement that evidence ...