In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

[EDRM Editor’s Note: EDRM is proud to publish Ralph Losey’s advocacy and analysis. Images in the article were created by Ralph Losey using AI. Originally published on EDRM.net.] Most legal technology ...

Claude Code gives an LLM a shell and dev tools so it can write and run code. Bourbaki does the same thing for math: it gives an LLM a computer algebra system (SymPy), a proof assistant (Lean 4), and ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

GPT-4o: Correct syntax, wrong logic Claude 3.5: High confidence, low accuracy Gemini 2.0: Plausible but incorrect reasoning LLaMA 3.1: Hallucinated "proofs" Root Cause: LLMs excel at pattern matching, ...

Conversations about the crisis of modern masculinity are gathering steam. At the center of that conversation, from community halls to chinwags with Theo Von, is NYU professor Scott Galloway. With his ...

There’s a curious contradiction at the heart of today’s most capable AI models that purport to “reason”: They can solve routine math problems with accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper ...

Automated reasoning tools are used to find bugs and security vulnerabilities in hardware and software systems or to guarantee that there are none, making it crucial such tools be trustworthy. Having ...

In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in geometry. Lay an infinitely thin, inch-long needle on a flat surface, then rotate ...

Independent Researcher, Arlington, Washington State, USA. In Section 1, we will define the prime number factorization operator and clarify some terms and concepts. In Section 2, we will derive some ...

The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — until a new breakthrough result.