André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of ...

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After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the Hamiltonian of a ...

If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them like a checkerboard. To squeeze together ...

The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit? Magnetic activity. Thomas H. Zurbuchen is a professor and leader of the space ...

The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit?

Start talking to Ellie Pavlick about her work — looking for evidence of understanding within large language models (LLMs) — ...