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 ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so ...

The meteoric rise in power and popularity of machine learning models dependent on valuable training data has reignited a basic tension between the power of running a program locally and the risk of ...

Let's start with an example. Suppose we want to put an array of n floating point numbers into ascending numerical order. This task is called sorting and should be somewhat familiar. One simple ...

There shuffle mode (i.e. the Shuffle Playback) is a function available on the main music players and modern music streaming services that allows you to play the songs contained in a folder or playlist ...

In statistics and machine learning, logistic regression is a widely-used supervised learning technique primarily employed for binary classification tasks. When the number of observations greatly ...