When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

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Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

More students should be taking advanced math.

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent ...

Everyday skills like reading a map were crucial before smartphones, but now that technology is at the forefront, nobody seems ...

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few th ...

CNN's Harry Enten dropped bad news on Democrats, breaking down the simple "math problem" that could keep them from gaining control of the Senate. The post CNN Data Guru Dumps Ice Cold Water on ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...