Mathematics & Data

22+ min ago   (310+ words) From the age-old philosophies of Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Zhuangzi's "Butterfly Dream" to today's most cutting-edge scientific theories, the idea that our reality might not be as it seems has long fascinated humanity. In the digital age, this…...

2+ hour, 28+ min ago   (431+ words) OpenAI’s latest math release has some academics celebrating breakthroughs and others wondering what happens to the researchers who were still working toward them. Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at New York University, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday that the…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (776+ words) OpenAI spent Tuesday, October 6, 2026, publishing hundreds of AI-generated mathematical results. By Thursday, the mathematics community was publicly furious. A professional advocacy group called the material “not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power,” and at least one Fields…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (1195+ words) OpenAI claimed in September that one of its models had solved a mathematical problem worth one million dollars: the Navier-Stokes Problem. Given that artificial intelligence seems to have solved a problem that challenged human mathematicians for decades, the announcement from…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (175+ words) Fifty-six researchers from Panjab University (PU) have featured in the 2026 Stanford-Elsevier database of the world’s top 2 per cent scientists, with 54 recognised for single-year citation impact and 28 for career-long research impact. According to the university, 26 researchers feature in both categories, taking…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1813+ words) TL;DR: You don’t need a machine learning degree to work with AI. You need to understand the terms well enough to follow the conversation and spot the trade-offs behind what your team is building. Most of us started using…...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (1470+ words) The single biggest quality problem in most experimentation programs isn’t statistical — it’s conceptual. Teams run tests without hypotheses. They have ideas, and they call those ideas hypotheses, but they’re not. “Let’s test a bigger CTA button” is not a hypothesis....

8+ hour, 56+ min ago   (288+ words) Mathematicians are calling for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released hundreds of AI-generated mathematical findings and more than 700 files, triggering a backlash over its approach to scientific research. The Association for Human Mathematics has urged researchers to stop…...

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2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (138+ words) Simon Fraser University - Prof Samira Siahrostami elected to the Royal Society of Canada College SFU Chemistry associate professor Samira Siahrostami has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (RSC College). Dr. Siahrostami,…...