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Walter Pitts

How a frog’s eye robbed us of a genius’s AI masterwork

30 May 2018

Walter Pitts would have become one of the most famous names in computer science - if it hadn’t been for the frogs

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

25 May 2018

The three-body problem, which determines how objects orbit each other in space, is notoriously difficult to solve. Now there are 231 new valid orbits

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