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Two CPS principals removed due to ‘investigation’

The principals at Hyde Park Academy and Lindblom Math and Science Academy were removed beginning Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Spotify may start using Sliding Doors-style 'what if?' AI to suggest your new music

Burden of choice, be gone! Spotify's counterfactual math AI can delve into the realms of ‘what if this never happened – what then?’ to suggest your next favorite album…

TechRadar

Sal Khan explains why GPT-4 is ready to be a tutor

It can explain why you got things wrong, even if it can't explain its own inner workings.

Axios

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ChatGPT's greatest achievement might just be its ability to trick us into thinking that it's honest

In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

The Conversation

Alan Turing's famous mathematical model was right all along, chia seed experiment reveals

For the first time, scientists using chia seed experiments have confirmed that Alan Turing's mathematical model can explain patterns seen in nature.

LiveScience

Yvette Young names the 10(+) guitarists who shaped her sound

Covet’s two-hand tapping math-rock mastermind reveals why she only just started listening to Van Halen, what it’s like to jam with Steve Vai and the guitar discovery that changed her life

Guitar World

Puerto Rico’s remaining schoolkids struggle in the aftermath of hurricanes and earthquakes

Beset by natural disasters, a pandemic and a steep drop in student population, the island’s schools look to the federal government for help

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Bard gets a little smarter as Google adds some PaLM upgrades

Google has started to bring in new improvements to its AI chatbot Bard via PaLM.

Android Central

The Morally Funky Math of Homeowner Handouts

The rich are getting richer under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Reason

Edinburgh school pupils get 'confidence boost' ahead of exams with 'Saturday School'

Dozens of pupils at Gracemount High School are getting a boost of confidence with help from extra maths and biology tuition on Saturdays in the run up to their exams

Edinburgh Live

Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that solves a decades-old math problem

A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern.

LiveScience

Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness

When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in April 1986, one of the problems he cited was that too few students were devoted to the study of math.

The Conversation

High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting.

LiveScience

Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem

The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.

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Rolls-Royce launches Bristol jobs scheme for engineers returning to work

The aerospace giant’s defence division will offer a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) ‘returnship’ scheme at its site in Filton, South Gloucestershire

USA Today Sports Media Group

The A’s had the Giants so confused when they ran off the field after the second out of an inning

Math is hard.

The Conversation

40 years ago 'A Nation at Risk' warned of a 'rising tide of mediocrity' in US schools – has anything changed?

The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s release of a report titled “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 was a pivotal point in the history of American education. The report used dire language, lamenting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of…

TechRadar

Is Duolingo building a new music-learning app? We interpret the signs

Expanding beyond languages and math, Duolingo is looking to build a music curriculum for its next educational venture.

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Why Seattle schools are hinging student success on Black male achievement

SEATTLE — During a math lesson on dividing decimals at Hawthorne Elementary School, 11-year-old Imran Ali said the material didn't click for him until his fifth grade teacher taught it using felt blocks. It was easier, he said, to count out real-life objects instead of grappling with abstract numbers in…

Tribune News Service

Mark Story: Ten bracket tips that could give you the edge in your NCAA Tournament pool

As a mathematician and the head of Centre College’s sports analytics initiative, Jeff Heath brings a number cruncher’s approach to correctly predicting NCAA Tournament games.

Evening Standard

Love Island fans left confused as Jack Keating welcomes baby eight months after villa: ‘It ain’t mathing’

Viewers of the ITV2 show believe they’ve worked out that the star conceived before entering Casa Amor in July

ABC News

Movie critic versus mathematician pick 2023 Oscar winners

In a case of "man versus maths", a film critic and a Moneyball mathematician go head-to-head to predict Academy Award winners.

The Conversation

Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their own math holidays

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written as 3/14, matches the start of the decimal expansion 3.14159… of the most famous mathematical constant.

WEKU

Students learn lessons on climate change, pollution through raising salmon

Although many Alaskan students are familiar with salmon fishing, raising them gives them a new perspective on writing, science, math and art.

WEKU

In the Donbas, Russia's vast numbers of troops weigh heavily on Ukraine's defenders

Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered equally horrific losses in the war. But when it comes to troop strength, the math is on Russia's side. Its population is four times Ukraine's.

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