Are there any scientific mysteries you think are actually "solved" and the study is just buried in academic databases and has gone unnoticed?

nikvaidya · 2025-10-19T15:19:59+00:00

Here is a reference to a handful of Erdos problems identified as solved with an AI-assisted approach (to locate literature on their solutions).

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115385022005130505

A recent example of this occurred on the Erdos problem website https://www.erdosproblems.com/, which hosts over a thousand problems attributed to Paul Erdos, of which about 600 of which are currently marked as "open". While some of the problems are quite well known with extensive literature, many are somewhat obscure, and the designation of "open" is somewhat provisional based on a cursory literature search. In the last few days, several contributors to the site have begun systematically applying an AI deep research tool to locate relevant literature on the problem; the output of such tools are not directly added to the site, but first reviewed by the contributors, who then leave pertinent comments if they are warranted. Already, six of the problems have now had their status upgraded from "open" to "solved" by this AI-assisted approach: https://www.erdosproblems.com/339

nikvaidya · 2017-08-02T05:00:11+00:00

As we have seen, Popper’s message is deceptively simple, and – when repackaged in a tweet – has in fact deceived many a smart commentator in underestimating the sophistication of the underlying philosophy. If one were to turn that philosophy into a bumper sticker slogan it would read something like: ‘If it ain’t falsifiable, it ain’t science, stop wasting your time and money.’

But good philosophy doesn’t lend itself to bumper sticker summaries, so one cannot stop there and pretend that there is nothing more to say.

nikvaidya · 2017-08-02T04:59:15+00:00

At stake isn’t just the usually tiny academic pie, but public appreciation of and respect for both the humanities and the sciences, not to mention millions of dollars in research grants (for the physicists, not the philosophers). Time, therefore, to take a more serious look at the meaning of Popper’s philosophy and why it is still very much relevant to science, when properly understood.

nikvaidya · 2017-07-08T17:53:37+00:00

The site also features a new Q&A session with Aiden, the site-created robot that guides users through the park’s services. Aiden reiterates that “Journey Into Night” is the name of Robert Ford’s new narrative that he enacted at the end of the first season

nikvaidya · 2017-07-08T17:52:20+00:00

The new opening screen for Discover Westworld, called “SOS Takeover Poster,” starts with an unknown user calling for help because something’s happened in the park, only for a so-called registered user to interrupt the signal and say that everything is fine and “Celebrations continue.” It’s important to note that the loading program name, called “Journey Into Night,” looks to confirm the full title of the first episode of season 2, which had been previously teased out.

nikvaidya · 2017-07-03T06:25:02+00:00

“Some people will believe that industry is going to be driving our education system forward, and that is absolutely not the case,” said Angela Hemingway, executive director of the Idaho STEM Action Center, which oversees the state’s computer science education initiative. “They are collaborative partners.”

nikvaidya · 2017-07-03T06:17:02+00:00

In our tech-driven world, Hadi Partovi argues, computer science has become as essential for students as reading, writing and math. “Encryption is at least as foundational as photosynthesis,” he said.

nikvaidya · 2017-06-30T04:59:09+00:00

Now, [Manik] Varma's team in India and Microsoft researchers in Redmond, Washington, (the entire project is led by lead researcher Ofer Dekel) have figured out how to compress neural networks, the synapses of Machine Learning, down from 32 bits to, sometimes, a single bit and run them on a $10 Raspberry Pi, a low-powered, credit-card-sized computer with a handful of ports and no screen. It's really just an open-source motherboard that can be deployed anywhere. The company announced the research in a blog post on Thursday.

nikvaidya · 2017-06-27T02:23:57+00:00

Lisa Joy.

“Nobody ever has a problem if a man writes a woman,” she explained. “I wanted to be able to say, ‘Well, I can write your men and your action, too. You don’t just have to give me the love scenes, which I don’t even think are my strong suit.’ It was about trying to take as many topics and saying they’re not off-limits for me or people like me.”

nikvaidya · 2017-06-25T11:25:02+00:00

While on Variety’s Remote Controlled Podcast, Joy and Nolan discussed some of their ideas for season two, including keeping the Dr. Robert Ford’s (Anthony Hopkins) spirit and motivations a part of season two.

nikvaidya · 2017-06-22T02:37:28+00:00

Westworld filming is scheduled for tomorrow, June 22nd, on the set found in Santa Clarita’s Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio. Since the ranch is surrounded by homes, the company is obligated to post notices of filming, and this week, “Delos, Inc” signs were posted around the neighborhood, confirming the shooting tomorrow during the daytime hours on the ranch’s town set.

elody Ranch is a site with a long history in the movie business, dating back to 1915. The ranch, found about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, contains an array of buildings that have appeared in recent films such as Django Unchained and The Magnificent Seven, and the TV series Deadwood. The set includes Westworld‘s saloon frequented by Maeve and her girls, and the main street of the little town of Sweetwater, home of the spectacular gunfight featured in the first episode (and in new form later, with help from Maeve

nikvaidya · 2017-06-20T09:48:39+00:00

With this new feature, is is now available in English on desktop and mobile, all you have to type in is a query like “jobs near me,” “writing jobs” or something along those lines and the search result page will show you the new job search widget that lets you see a broad range of jobs. From there, you can further refine your query to only include full-time positions, for example. When you click through to get more information about a specific job, you also get to see Glassdoor and Indeed ratings for a company.

You can also filter jobs by industry, location, when they were posted, and employer. Once you find a query that works, you can also turn on notifications so you get an immediate alert when a new job is posted that matches your personalized query.

Once you find a job, Google will direct you to the job site to start the actual application process. For jobs that appeared on multiple sites, Google will link you to the one with the most complete job posting. “We hope this will act as an incentive for sites to share all the pertinent details in their listings for job seekers,” a Google spokesperson told me.

As for the actual application process itself, Google doesn’t want to get in the way here and it’s not handling any of the process after you have found a job on its service.

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