In the spirit of the "Super Bowl Shuffle," Toby Mergler gives his prop-bet picks for this year's game ... in rhyming stanzas.

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 ...

Here's the corrected and polished version: Implementation of randomized greedy algorithms for solving the Knapsack Problem and Traveling Salesman Problem in C++. Educational project demonstrating ...

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One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

The difficulties of algorithmic dynamics in highly nonconvex landscapes are central in several research areas, from hard combinatorial optimization to machine learning. However, it is unclear why and ...

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 ...

We study the greedy (exploitation-only) algorithm in bandit problems with a known reward structure. We allow arbitrary finite reward structures, while prior work focused on a few specific ones. We ...

Ethereum researcher “Malik672” has proposed a solution to democratize Ethereum’s block proposer process, which they claim would also eliminate MEV at the block level. An Ethereum researcher has ...