Mathematician Terence Tao recently described how he used ChatGPT to help solve a math problem on MathOverflow. Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities.

Peter Scholze has just published a challenge to the automated mathematical formalisation community in a post – Liquid tensor experiment – on Kevin Buzzard’s blog. Peter explains there the motivation ...

Some years ago, a postdoctoral fellow in my lab tried to publish a series of experiments with results that — to his surprise — supported a theoretically important but extremely counterintuitive null ...

The journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens, argues Jason Priem. To solve this, peer and editorial review emerged as a filter ...

Here’s an incredible fact: of the 50 billion or so groups of order at most 2000, more than 99% have order 1024. This was announced here: Hans Ulrich Besche, Bettina Eick, E.A. O’Brien, The groups of ...

Most Americans belong to an online community of some sort. Some share baby photos or funny videos with their friends. Others jabber about the news cycle or bacon. At a time when Malcolm Gladwell ...

I really like Malcolm Gladwell's new piece on digital political organizing. It's got an excellent structure, alternating scenes of the lunch counter protests of the 1960s with ideas about the loose ...

Have you been pondering the probability that two random integers are relatively prime? The answer — 6/π² – awaits you in cyberspace. In a stunning example of the power of the Internet to attract and ...