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A Sledgehammer for a Gnat: Oxford and Cambridge Are Over-Engineering Small Problems by Keith Watts

Oxford and Cambridge both have real problems. Oxford can’t get short-term rental owners to bother with licensing. Cambridge ...

Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Why AI Has Transformed Coding But Not Selling—And Technical Advances To Close The Gap

Sales, a function that obviously runs on language, has been among the least changed by the technology built on language.
MIT Technology Review

Super Mario is mathier than you think

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...
Education Week

Momentum Builds to Expand Coding Education to Learning About AI ‘Under the Hood’

Code.org, one of the major K-12 computer science education curriculum providers, is rebranding to CodeAI, expanding its mission from computer science education into learning about AI and building ...
The New York Times

Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86

He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to write the underlying code. By Clay Risen Cleve Moler, a mathematician who, in ...
CSOonline

OpenAI’s Lockdown Mode is trying to solve the problem that it created

The feature reduces the possibility of data exfiltration by slashing external capabilities, but OpenAI oddly tells enterprise CISOs ‘prompt injection is not currently a major risk.’ OpenAI’s move to ...
The Next Web

Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem

Tencent will let PayPal users make cashless payments in China through WeChat Pay’s QR code merchant network, starting with US users. The move targets foreign tourists who struggle with China’s ...
The Spokesman-Review

Chet Holmgren, unusually quiet vs. Spurs, gives Thunder a problem to solve this summer

OKLAHOMA CITY – Chet Holmgren stood tall, one hand in the air, feet off the ground – tall and helpless to what was about to come. Victor Wembanyama didn’t pause. And why would he stop? Wembanyama is ...
InfoQ

The Schema Proliferation Problem in Kafka and Flink Pipelines: How to Solve It

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...
Health Affairs

Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve?

Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve? Christopher P. Childers, Christopher K. Senkowski, Don J. Selzer, Charles D. Mabry, Michael J. Sutherland, and ...
BetaKit

Jesse Wiebe built Startup TNT’s agri-food arm. Now he’s leaving to solve a larger problem

Prairies entrepreneur and startup advocate says Canada is facing a crisis in early-stage capital formation. It was an emotional end to the finale of Startup TNT’s spring agriculture investment summit ...