Top Hackernews posts from www.quantamagazine.org
- Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New algorithm breaks speed limit for solving linear equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Inside the Proton (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Researchers achieve ‘absurdly fast’ algorithm for network flow (www.quantamagazine.org)
- In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New math book rescues landmark topology proof (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers (www.quantamagazine.org)
- JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A student’s desire to get out of a exam led to a compression algorithm (www.quantamagazine.org)
- To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New proof reveals that graphs with no pentagons are fundamentally different (www.quantamagazine.org)
- He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How to prove you know a secret without giving it away (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Gravity is a double copy of other forces (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The brain has a ‘low-power mode’ that blunts our senses (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed (www.quantamagazine.org)
- What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Most life on Earth is dormant, after pulling an 'emergency brake' (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Hydras suggest that sleep evolved before brains (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019) (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Loneliness reshapes the brain (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold (www.quantamagazine.org)
- 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantized (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Surprise computer science proof in combinatorics (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Physicist discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox (www.quantamagazine.org)
- “Emergent” abilities in LLMs actually develop gradually and predictably – study (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The brain maps out ideas and memories like spaces (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the Ramsey number (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mathematicians clear hurdle in quest to decode primes (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The deep link equating math proofs and computer programs (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Cells across the body talk to each other about aging (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Students’ insight proves that the local-global conjecture doesn’t hold (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Black holes finally proven mathematically stable (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How Bell’s Theorem proved ‘spooky action at a distance’ is real (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Asymmetry detected in the distribution of galaxies (www.quantamagazine.org)
- ‘Alien calculus’ could save particle physics from infinities (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The enduring mystery of how water freezes (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New neural network architecture inspired by neural system of a worm (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Physics duo finds magic in two dimensions (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Complexity theory’s 50-year journey to the limits of knowledge (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set (www.quantamagazine.org)
- DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How I learned to love and fear the Riemann Hypothesis (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New Shape Opens ‘Wormhole’ Between Numbers and Geometry (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Detailed footage reveals what triggers lightning (www.quantamagazine.org)
- ‘Impossible’ particle discovery adds key piece to the strong force puzzle (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New breakthrough brings matrix multiplication closer to ideal (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision (www.quantamagazine.org)
- An ultra-precise clock shows how to link the quantum world with gravity (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A new experiment casts doubt on the leading theory of the nucleus (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Scientists find optimal space-time balance for hash tables (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The new math of how large-scale order emerges (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A mathematician's guided tour through higher dimensions (www.quantamagazine.org)
- How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem (www.quantamagazine.org)
- An ancient geometry problem falls to new mathematical techniques (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Experiments spell doom for physical-collapse explanation of quantum weirdness (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019) (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The electron is so round that it’s ruling out potential new particles (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mathematical proof is a social compact (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory (www.quantamagazine.org)
- New map of meaning in the brain changes ideas about memory (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected (www.quantamagazine.org)
- The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Tiny Language Models Come of Age (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A new link to an old model could crack the mystery of deep learning (www.quantamagazine.org)
- A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best (www.quantamagazine.org)
- Modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math (www.quantamagazine.org)