WASHINGTON — The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political polarization. But a series of ...
The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...
Graphs are everywhere. In discrete mathematics, they are structures that show the connections between points, much like a ...
In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says that when quantum computing becomes generally available, evolutionary algorithms for training huge neural networks could become a very important and ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...
Elon Musk says his hostile takeover bid for Twitter is all about free speech. The Tesla chief executive has tweeted multiple polls to his roughly 80 million Twitter followers on the topic, and he said ...