News

Ever wondered how computers work, or what the core concepts of computer science are? In this video, we’ll cover the ...
Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...
Opinion
Breaking Taps on MSN15hOpinion
A problem so hard even Google relies on Random Chance
Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this by tracking the longest run of zeros in a binary ...
Facebook’s explanations for how its heavily promoted AI algorithms failed to flag the New Zealand video took an intriguing turn this past Wednesday when the company acknowledged that its video ...
We give a branch-and-cut algorithm for solving linear programs (LPs) with continuous separable piecewise-linear cost functions (PLFs). Models for PLFs use continuous variables in special-ordered sets ...