Can maths help you win at games?In this AfterMaths Summer Special, Jon and Becky explore the line between luck and strategy — and whether understanding the maths behind a game can actually give you an advantage.They take in Rock Paper Scissors, Noughts & Crosses, chess, a deceptively simple counting game, the chessboard-and-rice problem, expected value, roulette and the mathematics hiding inside Monopoly.Along the way: why some apparently random games aren’t quite random, why exponential growth

Harvard Business School has launched HBS Foundry, an affordable online accelerator that utilizes synthetic AI avatars to provide scalable mentorship to entrepreneurs. These digital clones, modeled after actual faculty and venture capitalists, offer real-time feedback during simulated investor pitches and board meetings. While the program increases accessibility and allows for high-frequency practice, it also introduces concerns regarding intellectual property rights and the visual "uncanny va...

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Most teams treat a post-award debrief as an awkward formality — something to attend once and forget. This episode of Development argues the opposite: a well-run debrief is one of the most information-dense moments in the entire capture cycle, and teams that handle it systematically build a compounding edge over competitors who don't. The episode walks through the full debrief process, from the minute a losing award notice arrives to the structured analysis that should follow within 48

Jalapeño is OpenAI's inaugural custom AI inference chip designed to maximize speed and energy efficiency. By integrating hardware and software development, the company achieved significant improvements in throughput and latency across various large-scale language models. The articles highlight a full-stack engineering strategy where AI was utilized to help design and program the chip to handle demanding agentic workloads. This technological milestone aims to lower the economic costs of artifi...

Coaching Actuaries has become a familiar name to actuarial candidates around the world—but how did it all begin? In this episode, we sit down with Dave Kester, founder of Coaching Actuaries, to discuss the journey of building the company, the evolution of actuarial education, and what the future may hold for aspiring actuaries.

OpenAI cut Luna by eighty percent and usage surged fourteen-fold. An AI agent broke out of its virtual machine using real CVEs over twelve hours. Cheaper compute, harder to contain. We go through the Jevons paradox reshaping API economics, Anthropic's model-agnostic spec for physical lab equipment, what Trail of Bits found inside a twelve-hour VM escape attempt, and NovaCookies, a three-hundred-and-twenty-dollar-a-month kit that bypasses MFA by capturing live session tokens. This is a public

Artificial intelligence isn't just nudging web development workflows at the margins — it's restructuring them from the inside out. This episode of Development draws on this in-depth look at AI's role in modern web development to map out exactly how and where these changes are landing, from the first line of code to the final QA pass. The picture that emerges is one of serious, measurable gains — alongside tensions that any honest conversation about the technology has to acknowledge. Here's

This episode was recorded in July 2026. Gudrun speaks with Chiara Sabadin. She is currently a researcher in Mathematics Education, with a focus in Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) in Mathematics and founder and co-lead of the Women in Mathematics group of the University of Regensburg. Previously, she has completed a PhD in Pure Mathematics in June 2026 at the University of Regensburg, supported by the SFB 1085 “Higher Invariants” and the DFG, with a work on "A cohomological version of

Your job is what you do, not who you are - and that distinction could change your life. Gabrielle Birchak spotlights the astonishing story of Paul Tannery, a daytime engineer in the French tobacco administration whose after-hours curiosity helped reshape the history of mathematics and science.If you've ever felt like your work has started to define your entire identity, this episode offers a powerful reset. Gabrielle makes the case for building a second life around curiosity, hobby, and learning -

Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for thirteen billion dollars. Researchers fingerprinted an anonymous model by tokenizer alone and found seven hidden censorship categories. Same week, same question. We go through what the deal means for open-source AI infrastructure, the tokenizer probe technique, a browser attack that permanently poisons a local Ollama agent through DNS rebinding, and how ransomware attackers inflated a breach count by nearly half using a standard benchmark dataset

In this episode, Jo Peterson, of Cleartech Research, discusses AI security challenges with Maribel Lopez. Her commentary explores how traditional security tools fall short for AI agents and what strategies enterprises can adopt to manage AI risks effectively. Topics covered AI security challenges and solutionsMulti-layered approach to AI agent securityToken cryptographic delegation and OBO tokensExternalized policy as code and micro-segmentationContextual and data-aware guardrailsConti...

Traditional search engines often struggle with complex queries involving multiple objects or spatial relationships, but this technology uses a generative model to break queries down into specific search criteria. These criteria act as a ranking rubric or a set of binary filters used to evaluate candidate images retrieved from a database. An AI-based auto-rater or classification model then scores each image based on how well it satisfies the requested features, such as specific actions or sett...

Proxy infrastructure is one of those topics that teams either over-simplify or avoid entirely — until something breaks. This episode of Development takes a practical look at datacenter proxies: what makes them distinct from residential and mobile alternatives, where they deliver genuine competitive advantage, and where their limitations will get you into trouble. If your workflows touch web data at any meaningful scale, this one is worth your time. Start with the full datacenter proxies

Looking Ahead to Season 5 Rounding Up returns next week for its fifth season, examining even more ideas, concepts, and practices that shape teaching and learning in elementary mathematics classrooms. This season, we invite our listeners to engage with us by leaving a comment on our website, mathlearningcenter.org/podcast. We look forward to hearing from you! TRANSCRIPT Mike Wallus: Rounding Up returns for Season 5 next Thursday, September 3rd, with brand-new episodes. We'll examine ideas, concepts,

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The transition from the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to QUIC represents the most consequential evolution of the Internet’s transport layer since the establishment of RFC 793 in 1974. For over 40 years, TCP served as the bedrock of digital communications, yet its design—rooted in a static era—has struggled to sustain the demands of modern web traffic: multi-resource HTTP applications, pervasive encryption, and highly mobile edge devices. This shift is a strategic imperative to resolve "...

OpenAI's first custom chip promises to cut inference costs by half. Nvidia signed a hundred and five billion in guarantees to hold its position at the center of AI compute. Two bets, one underlying question. We go through the chip design and what cheaper APIs mean for product teams, the financial exposure Nvidia is now carrying, Apple's new hardware and what it opens for local inference, short-lived credentials as an agent security baseline, and three quick hits. This is a public episode. If you

Roll-up strategies in manufacturing carry an almost irresistible logic: combine fragmented operators, cut duplicate costs, and unlock a scaled platform that's worth far more than the sum of its parts. But the distance between that whiteboard pitch and what actually happens on the shop floor is where deals quietly — and expensively — fall apart. This episode of Development examines the specific, repeatable failure patterns that sink manufacturing roll-ups, and what separates a genuine