Study uncovers lost ‘golden age’ of languages

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A linguistic “golden age” flourished between 1,000 to 3,000 years ago when tens of thousands of languages were spoken throughout the world, according to a new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern that traces trajectories in global language diversity … Read more

Why study Diophantine equations?

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Why study Diophantine equations? ← back February 10, 2026 One of the central goals of number theory is to find integer solutions to polynomial equations — this is called the study of Diophantine equations. This might seem a strange goal, … Read more

Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless

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Abstract:Agent Skills are structured packages of procedural knowledge that augment LLM agents at inference time. Despite rapid adoption, there is no standard way to measure whether they actually help. We present SkillsBench, a benchmark of 86 tasks across 11 domains … Read more