The Shadow of England in India’s Farm Protests: by David Fickling and Andy Mukherjee in Business Week. “Faster urbanization and quicker economic growth await. But, first, New Delhi has to make agricultural reforms palatable to farmers.”
Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen: “A group of researchers from the Technion in Israel and Google in Tel Aviv presented an automated conjecturing system that they call the Ramanujan Machine, named after the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who developed thousands of innovative formulas in number theory with almost no formal training. The software system has already conjectured several original and important formulas for universal constants that show up in mathematics.”
David Brooks on the coming technology boom: Vaccines, geothermal energy, fusion, autonomous vehicles, AI, space exploration, new drugs.
