For Halloween, HBO Max and Discovery+ bypassed the usual use of algorithms and leaned into a human-driven curation of specific content — not algorithms! — to drive subscribers to movies and ...

You’re guaranteed to eventually find a route you can’t improve with an acceptable move—a local minimum. The second subset of problems is PPAD (polynomial parity arguments on directed graphs).

But in theory, for a network like the Internet, which has about 100 billion nodes, the new algorithm could solve the max-flow problem 100 times faster than its predecessor. The immediate practicality ...