Everybody’s getting ready for the annual social sector lollapalooza in Oxford, and there have never been so many sessions with the word “scale” in the title. There seems to be a collective recognition ...

Without patch: d/dx [x^7 + x] = 0 With patch: d/dx [x^7 + x] = 7x^6 + 1 Without patch: Is 113 prime? No, 113 is not prime With patch: Is 113 prime? Yes, 113 is a prime number True 1-bit LLMs have no ...

Learn about compound interest. We will look at how to determine the final value, initial value, interest rate and years needed. We will investigate problems compounded continuously, daily, weekly, ...

In emerging markets, the success of a tech company is often judged by how sleek its app looks or how fast it grows. But long-term value isn’t built at the surface. It’s built underneath, in the ...

DeepSeek has introduced its recent model DeepSeek-R1, showing divergence from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, suggesting an open-source alternative to users. This paper analyzes the architecture of DeepSeek-R1, ...

Storytelling and mathematics don’t naturally go together. The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems ...

When I was twelve, I used to roller-skate in circles for hours. I was at another new school, the odd man out, bullied by my desk mate. My problems were too complex and modern to explain. So I skated ...

Digital security experts around the world have their eyes fixed on the Y2Q—“Years to Quantum”—clock. It ticks down the time until the projected date when a quantum computer will be able to break an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should ...