Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

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Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

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Allan Sun is a software and systems engineer at Apple, where he works on real-time system software and infrastructure for Apple’s in-house 5G modem silicon platforms (C1X), one of the company’s most ...

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HiGHS is a high performance serial and parallel solver for large scale sparse linear optimization problems of the form $$ \min \quad \dfrac{1}{2}x^TQx + c^Tx \qquad \textrm{s.t.}~ \quad L \leq Ax \leq ...

With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: ...

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