Knowledge Rocks!

I came across this story in Scientific American about how a group of mathematicians work together to solve (math) problems. Two cases are presented: the case of French mathematicians working together; and the other a more recent Internet-based collaboration: From the April 2010 Scientific American Magazine Problem Solved, LOL Blog comments point to a new, [...]

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I came across an article in the April issue of Wired, Clive Thompson on the Cyborg Advantage.In this article, Clive tells the story of how, after having been beat by IBM’s Deep Blue, Garry Kasparov observed that “(H)uman smarts and silicon smarts work in very different ways” — “which gave Kasparov an intriguing idea. Instead [...]

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