“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age ...

Valve's unveiling of the Steam Machine has many of us excited about the yet-to-be-released gaming PC. Rocking an AMD Zen 4 CPU, an AMD RDNA 3 GPU, and up to 16GB of RAM, the box-shaped hardware isn't ...

A wicked problem in strategy is one that defies a straightforward solution. The term is used to describe complex problems that refuse conventional problem-solving. Ganna Pogrebna is the David Trimble ...

This research introduces a novel approach to uncovering structural variables in complex systems, reshaping how we model the unpredictable behaviour of the real world Connected puzzle pieces (Courtesy: ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A decade after Dad died, I’d domesticated my grief into an item on my to-do list: Pack backpacks; supervise ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Every year, 11 million tons of textiles — clothing, towels, bedding and more — end up in landfills in the United States. It’s a staggering number, especially since only about 1% of textile waste is ...