The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

The Indiana Pacers enter the NBA Draft Lottery in a rare and high-stakes position, with a tightly packed range of outcomes that could swing their direction dramatically. Unlike most lottery teams, ...

Most optimization problems in control theory assume you're working in flat space. You have a system, you want to steer it from one state to another, and you minimize some cost along the way. This ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the problem of policy evaluation with linear function approximation in discounted infinite horizon Markov decision processes ...

If a new pathogen causes a large epidemic, then it might “burn out” before causing a second epidemic. The burnout probability can be estimated from large numbers of computationally intensive ...

Patronus AI, the artificial intelligence evaluation startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, unveiled a new training architecture Tuesday that it ...

Sometimes in a comparison of the frequency of observations in a fourfold table the numbers are too small for the χ² test (Chapter 8). The exact probability test devised by Fisher, Irwin, and Yates (1) ...

Probability is a fundamental concept in mathematics and statistics that deals with the likelihood of events occurring. It provides a framework for quantifying uncertainty and making predictions based ...

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