Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

Scientists Found a Surprisingly Simple Way To Improve Online Matchmaking

A new study suggests that a simple change to how online matchmaking platforms display profiles can significantly improve user ...
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Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...
IEEE

Multi-Objective Optimization by Using Evolutionary Algorithms: The

Abstract: In this paper, a novel general class of optimality criteria is defined and proposed to solve multi-objective optimization problems by using evolutionary algorithms. These criteria, named ...
IEEE

Technology-Aware Algorithm Design for Neural Spike Detection, Feature Extraction, and Dimensionality Reduction

Abstract: Applications such as brain-machine interfaces require hardware spike sorting in order to 1) obtain single-unit activity and 2) perform data reduction for wireless data transmission. Such ...