Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while boosting reasoning accuracy.

Develop optimal solutions to a scheduling problem by modelling it as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), a method used widely in the field of Artificial Intelligence. I've open-sourced Delegator ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. In the end, though, it all comes down to a game of numbers. That, at least, is the theory behind mathematical ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

Learning a new skill can be difficult, especially when it’s relatively complex. It’s often hard to keep definitions, concepts, and descriptions straight when you’re trying to make inroads into an area ...

The new interpreter will run Python programs as much as 5% faster, with no changes to existing code required. A beta of Python 3.14 is due in May. March 10 update ...

War in Europe is a staple topic in the study of history, but there’s one major conflict most history books won’t teach you: the battle of the equal sign, =. These two parallel lines were, in fact, the ...