The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...

A soldier sits in a sterile hospital room, speaking words of hard-earned wisdom as his eyes betray flickers of melancholy and regret. It’s a scene out of a movie, only this is no ordinary actor, ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Introduction: In unsupervised learning, data clustering is essential. However, many current algorithms have issues like early convergence, inadequate local search capabilities, and trouble processing ...

Take advantage of the MethodImplAttribute class in C# to inline methods and improve the execution speed of your .NET applications. The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language ...

In this video, we return to the Las Vegas casino floor to test a slot machine strategy we discovered on YouTube, incorporating one small change that could make a significant difference. We explore a ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The internet became a thing just over four decades ago, and has now transformed into an essential service that connects billions of people worldwide. Every major industry, including healthcare, ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...