As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...

In 2016, a mathematician quietly solved a problem that had remained open since the time of Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler. Her name is Maryna Viazovska. The problem is known as the sphere packing ...

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MIT researchers utilize a diffusion model, a type of generative AI, to efficiently tackle the robot packing problem, considering multiple constraints simultaneously. The new method, Diffusion-CCSP, ...

I’ve been abroad for over two months now, which means I can finally admit that I packed way, way too much. The problem started the night before going abroad. My one checked bag was packed, so all that ...