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Mathematics has always stood quietly behind great changes, and the rise of AI is no different. As machines learn through ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...