The Fatal Mistake Behind 80 Percent of AI Failures—and the 5-Step Playbook That Prevents It

A new Andreessen Horowitz profile reveals the five-step process behind SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine. The sequence exposes a fatal ...
Biometric Companies

FBI seeks industry input on biometric algorithms for NGI modernization

The scale of the system is one of the most important details in the notice The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is surveying the biometrics industry for commercially available algorithms that ...
Quanta Magazine

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...
Wired

Scientists Establish the Best Algorithm for Traversing a Map

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...
Quanta Magazine

Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier

What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...
Frontiers

NeighborNet: improved algorithms and implementation

NeighborNet constructs phylogenetic networks to visualize distance data. It is a popular method used in a wide range of applications. While several studies have investigated its mathematical features, ...
Scientific Research Publishing

A Novel Efficient and Effective Preprocessing Algorithm for Text Classification ()

1 College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. 2 University of Birmingham Joint Institute, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Text classification is an essential ...