The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Introduction: In unsupervised learning, data clustering is essential. However, many current algorithms have issues like early convergence, inadequate local search capabilities, and trouble processing ...

This repository is supplementary to the paper: L. Zhang, O. Mickelin, S. Xu, and A. Singer, Diagonally-Weighted Generalized Method of Moments Estimation for Gaussian Mixture Modeling, arXiv preprint ...

OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new paper, released this week on bioRxiv, introduces hifiasm-ONT, a breakthrough genome assembly algorithm that enables partially phased, near telomere-to-telomere ...

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Co-authored by Nigel Bairstow, Ph.D., and Jeremy Neofytos, Research Assistant Over the last seven years, the customer experience on social media has shifted dramatically, moving away from the early ...

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This week I interviewed Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, about her Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act. If you don’t know what algorithmic collusion is, it’s time to get educated, ...

“I’ve read a lot of false information about how the Wu-Tang Clan came together,” says original Wu-Tang member—and award-winning actor, producer, performer, and entrepreneur—Method Man (Clifford Smith) ...