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 ...

The world according to Jim: • It’s time. It’s past time, in fact. Time not only to change the process of deciding a college football champion, but time to change the entire face of the sport, after a ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

The acquisition method records company buyouts, merging assets and liabilities. It includes all costs incurred, integrating them into financial statements. Investors analyze these reports to assess ...

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved. By David A. Fahrenthold Aatish ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Others is considered by many to be one of the best haunted house movies in horror, and pays ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

A class action lawsuit was filed Tuesday against UnitedHealth Group and a subsidiary alleging that they are illegally using an algorithm to deny rehabilitation care ...

On the heels of the last unconfirmed Google Search ranking algorithm update that touched down on October 25th, I am seeing signs of another tremor this morning - October 27th. Again, this is an ...