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The Math Behind "AI Will Take Your Job" Is Laughably Wrong [video]
ProofCouncil: An LLM Agent for Solving Open Mathematical Problems
arXiv:2607.09474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing promise in solving open problems in mathematics. However, their performance can b…
Trump to warn NATO countries against using ‘funny math’ on defense — as key allies struggle to do the minimum
Some of NATO's most prominent countries are struggling to get on track toward the defense spending goal President Trump set for 2030, with the president warning allies from "playin…
Horrifying Ukraine pics show cruel aftermath of Russian strikes that killed 21 people
The onslaught over the last several days underscored Kyiv's desperate need for American-made Patriot interceptors, one of the few anti-air weapons that can stop Russia's ballistic …
Connections in Math: the two kinds of random
Two files of a million digits, statistically identical, and yet one compresses to three lines and the other never will. Chasing that gap splits the idea of 'compressible' into two …
Democrats face CRUSHING math problem trying to take over the Senate, CNN's Harry Enten says
While Democrats are hopeful about their chances to gain control of the U.S. Senate as well as the House of Representatives, a CNN political analyst says the former is very unlikely…
AI and Mathematics Research – Yikes (N.J. Wildberger)
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Tensordyne Converts AI Matrix Math to Logs to Crank Up Inference Oomph
Right off the bat, let’s give a shout out to the mathematician propeller-heads who create the transf ...…
Tabulation Tribulations
Previously: Bending, Yanking, and Cartesian Squares in Double Categories. We all know what a graph of a function is: it’s a set of pairs $latex (a, b)$, where $latex b = f a$. Simi…
Show HN: Every site gives a different P/E ratio, so I open-sourced the math
Transparent and Efficient Financial Analysis. Contribute to JerBouma/FinanceToolkit development by creating an account on GitHub.…
An LLM verifier rated math proofs near-perfect; an expert found 17% correct
Two posts ago I quoted a warning: an AI will find it easier to convince you it has a proof than to write one. A middling new paper finally put a number on that gap — 0.99 against 0…
The Aftermath of Venezuela’s Earthquakes
Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, a photographer for The New York Times, describes the scene on the ground after the Venezuelan earthquakes.…
'I almost faint every time I stand up': In cramped student housing, studying becomes impossible during the heatwave
Students living in tiny apartments with no way to circulate air are struggling with extreme temperatures. For many of them, this coincides with exam season.…
Chamath Palihapitiya rejects the AI jobs apocalypse
The AI job apocalypse may make for an "incredible headline," AI investor and All-In podcast co-host Chamath Palihapitiya said on "The Axios Show" — but he says it ignores history. …
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha
Relentless rains are threatening a lake in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley that has become a key hub in the global flower trade.…
War Ends and the Aftermath Begins
How long will it take for global energy markets to return to normal? A long time, it turns out.…
Mathematicians grade AI performance on complex problem set at Harvard
Thirty mathematicians at Harvard blind-graded AI solutions to 10 original research-level math problems. AI passed seven but struggled with the hardest…
Show HN: Grade your growth rate using Paul Graham's two-number math
Measure your startup's growth rate against Paul Graham's 15%-a-month bar. Compound monthly growth, projections, time to $1B, and the moves to re-accelerate. Bring your own LLM Gate…
The Math of Doodling [video] ravi vakil
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44% of homeowners say renting is easier — but for retirees on fixed income, the math isn't that simple
Ben Stiller elated in aftermath of Knicks’ championship win: ‘As happy as I’ve ever felt’
After years of Knicks pain, he is now on top of the NBA mountain.…
Amazon Moved Prime Day, And The Math Still Doesn't Add Up
Amazon.com, Inc. stays a Strong Buy as Prime Day shifts to June and expands to 4 days, potentially lifting Q2 sales and ad revenue. Click for this AMZN update.…
After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math
Unscathed by pandemic-era school closures, the nation's 9-year-olds showed progress in math and reading. It's a different story for 13-year-olds, however.…
Benchmarks in Leipzig
Between April 1 and May 15, 2026, a group of 49 mathematicians compiled a dataset of research-level mathematics questions with known answers. Most of the work was done during the 3…
The Forest Service says it's closing offices to cut costs. But the math doesn't add up
The Forest Service is trying to shut down research hubs because it says it needs to live within its means. But the agency plans to close facilities that cost less than $1 to rent w…
Privacy token Zcash plunges after the disclosure of a 2022 vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool that could have allowed undetectable ZEC counterfeiting (Akash Girimath/Decrypt)
Sabrina Ionescu gets Caitlin Clark’s Fever dilemma during injury aftermath: ‘People know’
If there’s anyone who understands the growing pains Caitlin Clark is feeling in Year 3, perhaps it’s Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu.…
Sherpa missing for a week on Everest found crawling toward base camp after his family begins funeral rites
Rescuers call it a miracle after a Sherpa guide survived nearly a week alone on Mount Everest without food, water or supplemental oxygen in the death zone.…
Inside Zetu, Delhi’s new contemporary Sri Lankan restaurant
At 1AQ in Mehrauli, Zetu introduces Delhi diners to contemporary Sri Lankan cuisine in a Geoffrey Bawa-inspired space through dishes such as lamprais, buffalo-milk burrata and achc…
OECD warns of slower global growth, Argentina forecast holds
Argentina's economy is still expected to expand by 2.8% next year, but OECD warns the Middle East conflict will weigh on global growth and drive up inflation. Leer más…
Islanders captain Anders Lee could be preparing to test free agency
Lee, who turns 36 on July 3rd, is in the final year of a seven-year contract worth $7 million per year. He was named Islanders captain in 2018.…
ANALYSIS: SA’s judiciary must fight for hearts and minds to reclaim the moral high ground
High-profile cases, like that of taxi boss Joe Sibanyoni, expose systemic flaws within South Africa’s judiciary, raising critical questions about fairness and public trust.…
Trump, Iran have one month to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or risk major economic slowdown, OECD warns
Prolonged fuel disruptions caused by the Iran war threatens widespread recession, high inflation and soaring unemployment across the world, the Organization for Economic Cooperatio…
P. Sumathi appointed ‘first Woman Secretary’ to Law Department
P. Sumathi makes history as the first woman appointed Secretary to the Law Department in Chennai.…
Fontastic Space – Find Mathematically Optimal Font Pairings
Compare Google Fonts with anatomy overlays, metrics & pairing scores. Free.…
Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They've Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution
In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now landed on a better one. Why didn't humans get there fi…
How many Node.js apps can you run on a 2-core 1GB VPS with PM2? (The math)
Every indie hacker running on a $5 VPS has asked this question. The answer depends entirely on what...…
Spherical Voronoi Diagram
The Tax Math That Makes These Dividend Stocks Worth $19,200 More Inside a Roth
The EU Commission unveils its proposed tech sovereignty package, including the Cloud and AI Development Act, in a bid to cut its reliance on US tech companies (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)
Paralympic champion backs plans to fine airlines which fail disabled travellers
The Paralympic champion said an airline staff member once asked her if she had "ever tried to walk".…
Business Brief: What’s missing from Ottawa’s global trade math
Also in today’s edition: The one stock keeping it all together…
The Continuing Care Retirement Community Math a 72-Year-Old Couple Ran Before Writing an $880,000 Entrance Check
Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
End of Civilization News
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intelle…
Governments Promised Retirement. The Math Says They Can't Afford It | Pension Funds Have $68 Trillion. Six Economies Owe $224 Trillion.
A scientific calculator in C for terminal environments
**Advanced Terminal Calculator** – A powerful CLI scientific calculator with trig, logs, roots, base conversion, equation solver, differentiation, matrix ops, ASCII plotting, and h…
Open government land in MMDA Mathur turns into waste dumpyard
Residents in MMDA Mathur are using a vacant government plot as a dumping ground due to inconsistent garbage collection.…
Implicit.js, a way to program 3D models with mathematical functions
model 3d objects with math…
GTBench: A Curriculum-Grounded Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs as Mathematical Research Assistants in Graph Theory
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as self-study assistants in technical disciplines, yet their reliability as mathematical reasoning assistants remains poorly unde…
LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong informal mathematical reasoning but struggle to generate mechanically verifiable proofs in formal languages like Lean. We present LEAP, …
Pacific Palisades Voters Remain Frustrated by Fire Aftermath
Iran’s War Math Still Doesn’t Add Up
Iran’s missile attacks fail, exposing weakness amid rising regional tensions and U.S. defense readiness.…
Jalen Brunson brought the Knicks this Moment — and everything that can come with it
Maybe this will be the only shot Jalen Brunson gets. Maybe this is where it ends for the Knicks. Maybe the Moment will elude them, and Brunson. But I sure wouldn’t bet that way.…
As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.…