There is a quote often attributed to Einstein: compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, ...

While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these ...

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

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The news that Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has bought Moltbook – a “social network for AI agents” - seems like just another of those breathless endless announcements in the race for dominance in ...