America's Highway Numbering System Is Hiding A Giant Math Puzzle

Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...
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‘What Is He Saying?’: Trump’s Absurd Brag Sets Off a Chain Reaction — Dr. Oz Takes the Bait, But Fumbles the Math, and Starts Unraveling Mid-Interview

Dr. Mehmet Oz jumped in to defend President Donald Trump’s wild claim about slashing drug prices by more than a thousand ...

Large reasoning models almost certainly can think

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of ...
IEEE

Using logical prompts to automatically solve math word problems

Abstract: Automatic solving of math word problems (MWP) has been a popular research direction in recent years. Due to the complex mathematical logic relationships involved, many studies have been ...

The universe is not and could never be a simulation, study finds

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...
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CMU Math Student Charts a New Path with Rubik’s Cubes

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.
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Matrix collapses: Mathematics proves the universe cannot be a computer simulation

According to Dr. Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his international ...
The New York Times

The Athletic’s Friday football quiz question #77

Welcome to the 77th edition of The Athletic’s Friday quiz question. At the end of every week, we’ll serve up a poser from our vault of football conundrums. It won’t be easy (unless you’re really good) ...
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7 Alice In Borderland Season 3 Math & Trivia Questions, Including How To Solve The Birthday Problem

If you’ve already binged through Netflix’s Alice in Borderland season 3, you’re probably wondering if you could solve the math problems and trivia questions that were thrown into game 2, Sacred ...
IEEE

LININ: Logic Integrated Neural Inference Network for Explanatory Visual Question Answering

Abstract: Explanatory Visual Question Answering (EVQA) is a recently proposed multimodal reasoning task consisting of answering the visual question and generating multimodal explanations for the ...
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CarPlay Update Makes Users Question Apple's Design Logic: "Someone Should Be Fired"

The release of iOS 26 was a major turning point for iPhone users, as it adopted a new design language that is already expanding across Apple's entire product portfolio. Liquid Glass relies on visual ...
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Donald Trump Rages At CNN Reporter Then Refuses To Take The Question

Donald Trump spewed his usual vitriolic rhetoric about the media that cover him critically throughout his White House roundtable on Antifa on Wednesday. The president called journalists at MSNBC and ...