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Dr Barry R Clarke, who has lived in Oxfordshire for 37 years and spent a decade in Kidlington, is the author of Tic Tac Test, an interactive book being published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, on ...

Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, has a new game that aims to introduce players to the joys and agonies of the cryptic crossword.

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

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From visual exercises to solving the famous Eight Queens problem, explore how chess sharpens your mathematical reasoning and strategic thinking Chess is often seen as a tool to aid rational thinking ...

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Microsoft has introduced a new set of small language models called Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning, which are described as "marking a new era for efficient AI." These ...