The Math Behind Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to AI Foundations [Full Book]
“To understand is to perceive patterns.” – Isaiah Berlin This is not a math book filled with complex formulas, theorems, and concepts that are hard to...
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Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD
The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to...
Read moreHP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard
As a Windows system built inside of a functioning membrane keyboard, the HP EliteBoard G1a announced today is a more accessible alternative to other keyboard-PCs. The...
Read moreGrok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers...
Read morePowering up (and saving) the planet
Water shortages in Southern California made an indelible impression on Evelyn Wang ’00 when she was growing up in Los Angeles. “I was quite young, perhaps...
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Few people, if any, contemplate stars—celestial or cinematic—the way Aomawa Shields does. An astronomer and astrobiologist, Shields explores the potential habitability of planets beyond our solar...
Read moreDennis Whyte’s fusion quest
Ever since nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930s, scientists have wondered if we could somehow replicate and harness the phenomenon behind starlight—the smashing together of...
Read moreHands-on engineering
Jaden Chizuruoke May ’29 worked with teammates Rihanna Arouna ’29 and Marian Akinsoji ’29 to design the chemically powered model car whose framework he is building...
Read moreInvesting in the promise of quantum
As MIT navigates a difficult and constantly changing higher education landscape, I believe our best response is not easy but simple: Keep doing our very best...
Read moreStand Up for Research, Innovation, and Education
Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health,...
Read moreSecrets of the sleep-deprived brain
Nearly everyone has experienced it—after a night of poor sleep, your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention....
Read moreUnder 10% of an earthquake’s energy makes the ground shake
Earthquakes are driven by energy stored up in rocks over millennia—energy that, once released, we perceive mainly in the form of the ground’s shaking. But a...
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