A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in ...

Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

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The stable or robust transfer of matter, information, or energy, from one point in space to another is a crucial scientific and technological challenge. In 1983, Nobel laureate D. J. Thouless proposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

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Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

My solutions (in Python) for the problems from the Coursera course "Algorithmic Toolbox" (part of Data Structures and Algorithms specialization by UC San Diego).

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...