Our simulations debunk the notion that the act created artificial minority districts that wouldn’t otherwise exist. By Nate Cohn and Eve Washington The number of Black representatives from the South ...

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In machine learning, it is often necessary to statistically compare the overall performance of two algorithms (e.g., our proposed algorithm and each compared baseline) based on multiple benchmark ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

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Well, back in 1987, two programmers at General Electric did — and they ended up inventing the Marching Cubes algorithm. It’s the reason doctors can turn medical scans into 3D models that literally ...

The video game industry has evolved leaps and bounds over the last half century, from simple arcade-like gameplay to highly immersive, intelligent, and interactive gaming. With advancements in ...

Sorting is a fundamental operation underpinning a wide array of computational tasks, from database indexing and network packet scheduling to real-time signal processing. Traditional CPU-based sorting ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...