The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

In this article, a new feature selection (FS) algorithm, called simple, fast, and efficient (SFE), is proposed for high-dimensional datasets. The SFE algorithm performs its search process using a ...

Years ago, when her eighth-graders struggled with basic subtraction, teacher Rita Frenzel tried something different: She taught them chess. The math scores climbed, and so did a passion that would ...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are already a common staple of battery research. Now, they can be paired with a simple algorithm to enable better prediction of lithium metal battery ...

So you want to play on the PGA Tour? You better be really, really good first of all. But once you do make it, you better be really, really good at math. OK, so these guys almost all have accountants ...

In most cases, personal loan interest is not tax deductible because you generally can't deduct personal expenses. There are certain situations where personal loan interest is tax deductible, like if ...

For centuries, we have relied on human intuition, behavioral cues, and painstaking manual analysis to determine veracity in written communications. Enter artificial intelligence. AI algorithms, ...

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.

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