42 can be written as the sum of three cubes, which was the last remaining unsolved case under 100
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in math-related fields
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Drawing with sound (Oscilloscope music)
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A molecular near miss
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Dissecting a Dweet: Strange Attractor (a tiny 3D Lorenz system in javascript)
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The math of Emil Konopinski
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A mathematician has resolved the Sensitivity Conjecture, a nearly thirty-year-old problem in computer science
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the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages ™
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It's the Effect Size, Stupid - What effect size is and why it is important
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
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What's the story with log(1 + 2 + 3)?
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Penrose, a platform to create diagrams just by typing mathematical notation in plain text
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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The subtle art of the mathematical conjecture
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Why the world’s best mathematicians are hoarding chalk
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A quick and dirty introduction to Exterior Calculus (Stoke's Theorem)
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A new approach to multiplication opens the door to better quantum computers
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Higher Homotopy Groups Are Spooky
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A common misconception is that the risk of overfitting increases with the number of parameters in the model. In reality, a single parameter suffices to fit most datasets
@lopezdeprado: A common misconception is that the risk of overfitting increases with the number of parameters in the model. In reality, a single parameter suffices to fit most datasets: https://t.co/4eOGBIyZl9 Implementation available at: https://t.co/xKikc2m0Yf
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Mathematicians discover a more efficient way to multiply large numbers
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Overview of differential equations
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Venus is not Earth's closest neighbour
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Even after thirty-one trillion digits, we’re still no closer to the end of pi
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How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
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It’s time to talk about ditching statistical significance
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The sideways tide
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The math that tells cells what they are
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Pictures of Ultrametric Spaces, the p-adic Numbers, and Valued Fields
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All the numbers
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Heesch numbers and tiling
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Modern Arabic Mathematical Notation
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The double life of black holes: Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing
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Almost all polynomials are irreducible
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All models are wrong
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Randomness is random
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A sci-fi writer and an anonymous 4chan poster advance a mathematical permutation problem
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The triple jeopardy of a Chinese math prodigy
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The Proof That Shook The World Had No Diagonals
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The power of logic: How math can help you win your next argument
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Toroflux paradox: making things (dis)appear with math
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Twenty questions (of maddening, delicious geometry)
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Titans of mathematics clash over epic oroof of ABC Conjecture
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More musings on Pollard Rho
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Quaternions visualization by 3blue1brown - thinking in the fourth dimension
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Idle musings about the Pollard Rho method of factoring integers
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What statistic is absolutely mind-blowing?
Contrary to popular belief, if you're in a position where you need CPR from cardiac arrest, you only have a 5-10% chance of surviving after an attempted resuscitation.
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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Does Hollywood ruin books? - Numberphile
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Mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
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