According to Lex Fridman (@lexfridman), his in-depth conversation with Joel David Hamkins (@JDHamkins) explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and mathematical logic, focusing on how AI ...

Notes for MATH700132 (Mathematical Logic) taught by David Evans at Imperial in Spring 2025. They are a work in progress. These notes are primarily based on the content covered in lectures, with some ...

The Israeli prime minister is blaming Australia for fuelling 'antisemitism' by recognising Palestine - and mainstream media are all too keen to air his views Tributes are left in memory of the victims ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

Given the importance of recursion in modern linguistics, there ought to be much to commend in Watumull et al.'s (2014) attempt to clarify what recursion is (or ought to be); I have trudged this very ...

Writer Javed Akhtar on Sunday took on a user on X over alleged similarities, or differences, between the Mughal rule in India and the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel in the Middle East ...

Hallucination is fundamental to how transformer-based language models work. In fact, it’s their greatest asset: this is the method by which language models find links between sometimes disparate ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...