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Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time “This progress is ...

Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban ...

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A classic puzzle conundrum goes like this: You’re in a room with two ropes and a box of matches. Each rope takes exactly an ...