Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Learn how Log Softmax works and how to implement it in Python with this beginner-friendly guide. Understand the concept, see practical examples, and apply it to your deep learning projects.

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The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

Songwriter Dana Hunt Black remembers her cowriter, the late Kent Robbins, leaving her what seemed like an incomplete voicemail the night before the two were to meet up for a writing session. His words ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...