“Throw out the records.” “Anything can happen on any given night.” There are dozens of over-used idioms that make the same point: at their core, all athletic competitions have an element of chance.

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

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A newly-published paper entitled "Vibe coding kills open source" makes the claim that everyone's favourite new hobby—that is, using AI tools to code their own products—is actively damaging the ...