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Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, an Indian schoolteacher, discovered the intriguing number 6174. This constant emerges from a simple four-digit number rearrangement process. Repeatedly applying this ...

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I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four drawbacks.

International Olympiad in Informatics 2026 has opened in Tashkent - homeland of al-Khwarizmi, whose name gave the world "algorithm." Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced 235 Algorithm Cup collectibles ...

A term that describes a computer-science algorithm is the metaphor du jour among AI types—and coming soon to a boardroom near ...

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Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s wife Cami Clark played a bigger role in the AI juggernaut’s meteoric rise than previously known after her own forays in entrepreneurship – which included a failed ...

The Times columnist reflects on the seismic changes in media, religion and politics he’s witnessed in his career so far.