The Year in Computer Science: Busy Beavers, Quantum Codes, and AI Grokking

A deep dive into Quanta's Year in CS: how citizen scientists cracked the 5-rule Busy Beaver number, the push and limits of error-correcting codes, breakthroughs in quantum modeling and entanglement, and groundbreaking observations about how AI learns (grokking). Part one previews how these threads connect and hint at the future of computing.

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