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Breaking Math makes the abstract tangible—exploring the beauty, chaos, and hidden order of mathematics, technology, engineering, AI, and science. Join us as we decode big ideas, one equation (and story) at a time.
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Compassionate Math and The Sixes That Changed Everything (opens the original)
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At the end of a developmental math class at a college, a student who had failed the course walked up to his professor and handed her a painting and a loaf of pumpkin bread his sister had baked. She almost didn’t accept it. She knew he’d failed. She assumed he didn’t understand what that meant.He did. “Professor,” he told her, “I know I’m failing your class. But you helped me learn my sixes. And now that I know my sixes, I know I can do anything.”The professor was Dr. Geillan Aly, and the moment
Forecasting: Probability and The Trouble With Certainty (opens the original)
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Some people who are asked to predict the future, will not say “probably” or “I doubt it.” They will say “sixty-two percent.” At first this sounds absurd — a decimal-point confidence in a world that is, by any honest reckoning, mostly noise. But spend an hour with a professional forecaster, as Noah and I recently did with Molly Hickman on the podcast, and the absurdity starts to look like discipline.Listen to the full episode on Apple here and on <a h
Are we losing the forest for the tree with AI capability and risk? (opens the original)
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Are Scientists Witches? (opens the original)
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The Case for Taking Seeds Seriously (opens the original)
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Consider the sequoia seed. It weighs almost nothing. Held up to the light, it looks less like an organism than a scrap of paper someone forgot to throw away — inert, mute, and entirely unremarkable. Now let’s look at a Roomba making its rounds across a living room floor a few states over, tracing tidy geometric loops, correcting course when it meets a table leg, and pausing when its bin is full. Ask a child which one is more alive, and don’t be surprised if he points at the vacuum.He would be wr
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