Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...
eLife

Inferring variant-specific effective reproduction numbers from combined case and sequencing data

Integrating case counts with genomic sequences quantifies real-time transmission advantages of viral variants.
note

Reskilling for employees in their 50s is not about learning 'new skills'—The real way to learn that I realized after failing with Python

Lately, there isn't a day that goes by without hearing this phrase. “If I don't study something, I'll be left behind by the times.” I suspect there are many people who feel that kind of anxiety.
marktechpost

Artificial Intelligence

PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged. Two variants ship under Apache ...