We chat with Tarn Adams, aka ToadyOne, the sole programmer on the text-based base building game Dwarf Fortress. He left a math post-doc to make his own games. From the bug that created a massive fractal sculpture to the diary that he writes in code comments…

Reservoir computing is already one of the most advanced and most powerful types of artificial intelligence that scientists have at their disposal – and now a new study outlines how to make it up to a million times faster on certain tasks.

Solutions to the simplest polynomial equations — called “roots of unity” — have an elegant structure that mathematicians still use to study some of math’s greatest open questions.

Today I learned that there is a Taiwanese math professor with 1.3 million views on pornhub. The videos are just him teaching high level mathematics in Chinese 🤷‍♂️ pornhub.com/model/changhsu…

How one professor changed the culture of mathematics for his students

Time to put on my Cloud Economics Pants and do a bit of math around @Cloudflare's R2 pricing model as described herein. blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2…

What the Earth would look like if the sea level suddenly changed?
And what would be the Moon, Mars and Venus with as much water as on the Earth?
Show this on the following maps and compare our Earth with other
astronomical objects.

World maps. On this…

Remember domino theory? One country going Communist was supposed to topple the next, and then the next, and the next. The metaphor…

Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians

The simple matching game has some deceptively complex mathematics behind the scenes

Pornhub seems like the last place on earth you’d find a 50-minute, fully clothed calc lesson, but this Taiwanese teacher is the tube site’s newest star

The Cognitive Enhancement Foundation

Take a look at the full playlist (really): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWnA4j0_ho&list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z
Blog post with more details: https://3b1b.co/some1-results
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The transcendental number π is as familiar as it is ubiquitous, but how does Euler’s number e transcend the ordinary?

We’ve trained a system that solves grade school math problems with nearly twice the accuracy of a fine-tuned GPT-3 model. It solves about 90% as many problems as real kids: a small sample of 9-12 year olds scored 60% on a test from our dataset, while our…