Collaborate Disseminate
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ScienceAlert: According to a new study [published in Nature Human Behavior], the human brain has two separate ways of processing numbers of things: one system for quantities of four or fewer, an… Continue reading There’s a Big Difference In How Your Brain Processes the Numbers 4 and 5
The New Yorker looks at 41-year-old Amabel Holland, an autistic board-game designer who “thinks about the world in terms of systems,” and realized you could make a board game about almost anything, “and, when you did, its rules could both mirror and an… Continue reading World Modelling and ‘The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design’
Ivana Saric reports via Axios: U.S. students lag behind their peers in many industrialized countries when it comes to math, according to the results of a global exam released Tuesday. U.S. students saw a 13-point drop in their 2022 Program for Internat… Continue reading US Students’ Math Scores Plunge In Global Education Assessment
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Peru’s Kimberly Garcia set a world record in her gold-medal winning turn at the women’s 20 kilometer race walk event at the Pan American Games this weekend. Until she didn’t. Once the race was over, organiz… Continue reading A World Record In Race Walking Is Erased After the Course Was Measured Wrong
A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact …read more Continue reading That Coin Toss Isn’t Actually 50/50
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [R]esearchers from the University of Tubingen found for the first time that crows can perform statistical reasoning. These results can help scientists better understand the evolution of intelligenc… Continue reading For the First Time, Research Reveals Crows Use Statistical Logic
A recently released research reveals a fundamental challenge of developing artificial intelligence: ChatGPT has become worse at performing certain basic math operations. From a report: The researchers at Stanford University and the University of Califo… Continue reading ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math
Slashdot reader silverjacket writes:
Researchers at Oxford and elsewhere developed a method that figures out the most likely number and size of dimension in which to format a string of bits, with applications to interpreting messages from extraterrest… Continue reading Here’s How We Could Begin Decoding an Alien Message Using Math
It was always easy to spot engineering students in college. They had slide rules on their belts (later, calculators) and wrote everything on engineering pads. These were usually a light …read more Continue reading Your Engineering Pad in Browser
Math — and some clever simulations — have revealed how many shuffles are required to randomize a deck of 52 cards, but there’s a bit more to it than that. …read more Continue reading Math Reveals How Many Shuffles Randomizes a Deck