Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

The Alberta government is introducing the class size and complexity task force. Premier Danielle Smith shares a bit about what this will look like. David Eby says British Columbia's anti-tariff ads, ...

Abstract: Class imbalance introduces bias into model learning and remains a persistent and fundamental challenge in machine learning. When class imbalance is coupled with complex data distribution ...

Two former Google DeepMind researchers who worked on the company’s Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein structure prediction AI as well as its AlphaEvolve code generation system have launched a new ...

Right now, the algo visualizer shows how the algorithm works step by step, but it doesn’t tell users how efficient that algorithm is. For beginners, knowing just the animation isn’t enough — they ...

European class actions surged in value in 2024, led by the U.K. with €155 billion ($180 billion) in claims—mainly driven by competition and consumer cases—followed by significant activity in Portugal ...

Another name for brute force is exhaustive search. In these algorithms you consider every possible solution in the solution domain to find the optimal solution. Depending on the type of problem that ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

One of the most complex areas for sell-side execution desks today is dealing with client algorithms, according to the Acuiti’s Q3 Sell-Side Execution Management Insight Report. According to the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...