Algorithms reveal how propane becomes propylene for everyday products

Countless everyday products, from plastic squeeze bottles to outdoor furniture, are derived by first turning propane into ...
University of Nevada, Reno

Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.
Edutopia

A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

Disney+ plans to add user-generated, short-form AI content

AI video (most, if not all, of it slop) has already been proliferating on the Internet, from Elon Musk’s Grok to OpenAI’s Sora and beyond. Currently, these AI videos exist beyond any studio’s ability ...

‘Wanted’ Director Timur Bekmambetov Explains His $5 Million Plan to Generate AI Method Actors: ‘AI Is Here to Stay. We Have to Train It Responsibly’

Wanted' director Timur Bekmambetov has developed Stanislavski, a technology that uses method acting techniques to improve AI actors' performances.
IEEE

Univariate Niho Bent Functions From o-Polynomials

Abstract: In this paper, we discover that univariate form of a Niho bent function is a sum of functions having the form of a Leander-Kholosha bent function taken with particular coefficients from F*(2 ...
IEEE

Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Based on Piecewise Polynomial Activation Function for Image-Text matching

Abstract: Image-text matching remains challenging in big data processing. Matching accuracy is influenced by various factors, including the correlation between images and texts, feature extraction and ...