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 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 ...

Pull requests help you collaborate on code with other people. As pull requests are created, they’ll appear here in a searchable and filterable list. To get started, you should create a pull request.

Egypt-based CNC machine manufacturer Simplex has raised $13 million, led by Saudi Arabia's National Industrial Development Centre. Founded in 2013 by Ahmed Shaaban, Mohamed Mansour and Amr Mahmoud, ...

In the era of vast data, information retrieval is crucial for search engines, recommender systems, and any application that needs to find documents based on their content. The process involves three ...

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 ...

Ms. Angwin is a contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journalist. Social media can feel like a giant newsstand, with more choices than any newsstand ever. It contains news not only from ...