Human mathematicians may be facing tough competition from a machine. Physicists from Israel have designed an algorithm-generating invention, the Ramanujan Machine, that can automatically analyze mathematical patterns and create formulas. Researchers are hoping that the machine could be trained to work with constants beyond pure math in the future, helping speed up discoveries in physics, biology, and chemistry. Does that mean mathematicians will be out of a job? Not really, according to the authors. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
