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The Human Brain Runs On 20 Watts Of Power, About The Same As Your Computer Monitor

Your brain can outperform just about any computer out there. So, how come it needs barely any energy to do so?
Scientific American

Mathematicians find one pi formula to rule them all

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...
InfoQ

Claude Opus 4.6 Introduces Adaptive Reasoning and Context Compaction for Long-Running Agents

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "Adaptive Thinking" and a "Compaction API" to solve context rot in long-running agents. The model supports a 1M token context window with 76% multi-needle ...
IEEE

Enhancing Genetic Algorithm Efficiency: A Comparative Study of Serial and Parallel Computation for TSP

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in logistics, transportation, and network design. Traditional approaches, ...
IEEE

Gradient-Enhanced Kriging-Based Parallel Efficient Global Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Aerodynamic Shape Optimization

Abstract: The parallel efficient global optimization (EGO) algorithm was developed to leverage the rapid advancements in high-performance computing. However, conventional parallel EGO algorithm based ...
The Conversation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...