Articles by

Stephen Ornes

See how fractals forever changed math and science

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined...

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit...

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so...

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the...