Computing Wisdom

07/11/2025

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-sphere-packing-record-stems-from-an-unexpected-source-20250707/

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day!

06/25/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvNCVYkHKfg

Yann LeCun is the chief AI scientist at Meta. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the strengths and limitations of current AI models, weighing in on w...

06/25/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MygnjdqNWc

Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and longtime AI skeptic.Gary joins Big Technology to discuss why large‑language‑model scaling is running into a...

06/17/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63IWwLbMPI

Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkBz-cdB-kThank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsor...

06/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWTlLXMDqQ

Jim Simons used his coding skills to become the greatest investor ever. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and the first 200 people w...

06/10/2025

In 1994, Andrew Wiles established that an important kind of equation called an elliptic curve can always be tied to a completely different mathematical object called a modular form. This connection, called “modularity,” was recently shown to extend to another type of equation.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-core-of-fermats-last-theorem-just-got-superpowered-20250602/

06/08/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kIdtMJGc8

Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. B...

06/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

Shorter version: https://youtu.be/gjVDqfUhXOYMore about The Simons Foundation: http://bit.ly/SimonsFoundationJames Harris Simons has been described as "the w...

06/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6jDYuqN-CPA

Who is Jim Simons, and how has he continued to average 65% returns for over 30 years now? How does he use mathematical formulas and an algorithm to run his h...

05/29/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMEWVn1uZpQ&t=42s

Get started with data science using Python! This course covers essential tools like Pandas and NumPy, plus data visualization, cleaning, and machine learning...

05/28/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fLlJ73Elhk

Google DeepMind crushed several Olympiad problems, solving one problem in a mere 19 seconds. But is AI ready to human mathematicians? Not quite. There are im...