Abstract: In the light bulb problem, one is given as input vectors $x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n}, y_{1}, \ldots, y_{n} \in\{-1,1\}^{d}$ which are all uniformly random. They ...

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Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology. Traditional transformers are bulky and hot, but a new generation of ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Laurence Fishburne unpack The Matrix’s hidden biblical parallels, from Neo as “The One” to Morpheus as a John the Baptist figure. As “The Matrix” reportedly ...

Our world seems to be fundamentally fuzzy at the quantum level, yet we do not experience it that way. Researchers have now developed a recipe for measuring how quickly the objective reality that we do ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated reasoning. But when it comes to four-digit multiplication, a task taught in ...

During a recent appearance on the “So True with Caleb Hearon” podcast, co-director Lilly Wachowski was asked about certain right-wing groups attaching their ideologies to her 1999 sci-fi masterpiece ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles ...