The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the decision-making solutions for enterprise product quality inspection based on sequential testing and genetic algorithms. Firstly, using the binomial distribution ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Variations on this theme have been reported for sometime, evident in a couple dozen posted issues, focusing on various versions of the issue, such as the new algorithms is: nonoptimal, crashes, order ...

Typically (but not always) found in specialized cars and motorcycles, a sequential manual transmission, often shortened to just "sequential," is a type of manual gearbox which, like a traditional ...

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...

Sampling from complex probability distributions is important in many fields, including statistical modeling, machine learning, and physics. This involves generating representative data points from a ...