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The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song

A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more.

Will Douglas Heaven
MIT Technology Review

How Mathematics Can Predict—and Help Prevent—the Next Pandemic

Predicting and understanding disease outbreaks doesn't just involve epidemiology. It takes math, too.

Rachel Crowell
Scientific American

This Simple Math Problem Could Be the Key to Solving Our Climate Crisis

It's our last shot to save the planet, and these are the numbers that could change the end of the story.

Bill McKibben
Rolling Stone

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