the latest issue of Quanta Math and Science (online, free)

[BillWoodruff]

If it were not for sources like Quanta, I would never survive the New Year holidays when Kent will likely have the nerve to take a day off ! Has some very tasty news stories re computer science, AI, and algorithmic breakthroughs: ^]. Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence? By STEPHEN ORNES A simple algorithm that revolutionized how neural networks approach language is now taking on vision as well. It may not stop there. How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection By SHEON HAN Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to machines. Researchers Find ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography By ERICA KLARREICH The existence of secure cryptography depends on one of the oldest questions in computational complexity. Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow By ERICA KLARREICH Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down.

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