In the highly informative, yet accessible book “Life 3.0”, author Max Tegmark presents the developments, challenges and possibilities of superhuman AI, explaining the topics which form the basis of the discussion, while ... Read more
Author: Pramudith Fernando
Probing the Higgs Boson
In 2012 CERN discovered the highly elusive fundamental particle named the Higgs Boson and in later experiments, the particle’s theoretically predicted interactions with many other particles were experimentally confirmed. In ... Read more
33, 42 and “Sums of Three Cubes”
Let us write 29 as 29 = x³ + y³ + z³, plug in any integers for x, y, z. One set of solutions is 29 = 3³ + 1³ + 1³. Pretty simple and intuitive, right? Similarly, how about 30? Not so much. The only known solution involves ... Read more
When Logic Has Left The Chat
Bad arguments are everywhere, be it on debates, news or on social media, there’s always faulty reasoning and dishonest methods of persuasion. Done either knowingly or not, or with whatever intent, everyone’s guilty of it to ... Read more