Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, May 26, 2023
Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
Plus: How AI learns language; The future of quantum gravity; Aperiodic tiling; DeepMind's matrix multiplying marvel; New Quanta Science Podcast
The language you speak can impact the way that your brain hears certain sounds. A recent study suggests that artificial neural networks may work in a similar way.
Late last year, an algorithm developed by DeepMind beat a half-century-old record in efficient matrix multiplication. Days later, mathematicians built on it to push even further.
Pattern Repository In 1973, the mathematician Neil Sloane published "A Handbook of Integer Sequences," listing known number patterns such as the Fibonacci sequence. It's become an internet database with 362,765 entries and counting, reports Siobhan Roberts for The New York Times. The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences has spawned many mathematical discoveries and is now used as a go-to resource for mathematicians. In a 2015 interview for Quanta, Erica Klarreich discussed the repository with Sloane.
Collapse Collapses There is no satisfying solution to the quantum measurement problem: To resolve it, physicists must either give up on objective reality or revise widely accepted physical laws, writes Anil Ananthaswamy for Scientific American. "Collapse theories" are an attempt to resolve the measurement problem by admitting a single, objective reality at the cost of the law of conservation of information. In 2022, Philip Ball wrote for Quanta about how searches for evidence of collapse theories have turned up empty.
