To solve last week’s puzzle, don’t be so sure that you need a degree in probability theory. Study the situation described.
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There is more than one solution to last week’s Queens Problem because the board can be rotated — but we present one here.
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To solve last week’s dilemma, pay attention to the functions words can have in a sentence.
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Meanwhile, some are asking if Claude’s Navier–Stokes proof really originated with a researcher and a math prof using the system.
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To answer last Monday’s tree planting dilemma, look for shapes other than squares.
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The answer to last week’s “count the squares” puzzle can be turned into a formula that can be applied to any number of dimensions.
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Hint for the handshake problem in Microsofty 92: Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) provided a formula for this.
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A hint for Microsofty 91: Where might Jimmy the Mooch have found some spare energy?
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To solve last week’s puzzle, ask yourself, what changes were inevitable over the 25 years that Charlie mowed his lawn?
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The real concern is that AI can find, combine, and carry out existing malicious techniques much faster and on a much larger scale than the human one.
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To unraveling the multiple negatives in last week’s confusing sentences, we start by remembering that any two cancel each other.
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To solve last week’s puzzle: you are told how many heads there are so start by flipping that number of coins.
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The answer to Micro Softy 87 depends on understanding which number a given sequence of the code represents.
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AI “immigrants” like me tend to approach artificial intelligence with a healthy measure of skepticism. AI natives, who grew up with it, should learn this too.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years. But Moore’s Law must eventually stop at the Planck length.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, look up the definition of “calorie.” Are we using the word to mean the same thing?
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?
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To solve last week’s puzzle, we should picture what must happen when every bug wants to place itself between two other bugs.
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