[ad_1] Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real Worldby Matt Parker The start of the 21st century was a time of excitement and trepidation for the world. One one hand, we sat on the cusp of a future, an entirely new millenium, filled with countless possibilities. On the other hand, there was a […]
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Facebook taught its AI to speak math
[ad_1] My numerical idiocy aside, Facebook has trained an AI to solve the toughest of math problems. Real superstring stuff. In effect, FB has taught their neural network to view complex mathematical equations “as a kind of language and then [treat] solutions as a translation problem for sequence-to-sequence neural networks.” This is actually quite a […]
Papercraft-inspired math turns any sheet into any shape
[ad_1] The team started by establishing the constraints on lengths and angles that need to be met for producing any given cut pattern, and then use a numerical optimization approach to determine the generic patterns themselves (such as their orientation, number and size). From there, it’s a matter of using mechanical analysis to manage the […]
How calculus is helping unravel DNA’s secrets
[ad_1] Infinite Powersby Steven Strogatz Calculus has provided humanity a window into the inner workings of the world around us since the fateful day Isaac Newton got conked by a falling apple. But we’ve only ever really applied these mathematical tools to our “hard” sciences, like physics or chemistry. Heck, we probably wouldn’t have discovered […]