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OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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Abstract: The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem, seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. It is an important problem in field ...

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One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

Abstract: We present Kahuna, an approach that aims to diagnose performance problems in MapReduce systems. Central to Kahuna's approach is our insight on peer-similarity, that nodes behave alike in the ...