Not enough to worry about these days? Imagine AI achieving singularity. With artificial intelligence ever more ubiquitous, some worry about it going rogue and achieving what’s known as singularity: A ...

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Abstract: This paper provides a systematic overview of machine learning methods applied to solve NP-hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). Recently, there has been great interest from both the machine ...

In National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered in early 2024, high school seniors posted historically low ...

Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She unpacks it piece by piece: bright, 3D-printed shapes that click together… ...

How the Math of Shuffling Cards Almost Brought Down an Online Poker Empire Card dealers create a unique deck with each ...

Abstract: Large-scale sparse multiobjective optimization problems (LSMOPs) are of great significance in the context of practical applications, such as critical node detection, feature selection, and ...

Every business leader eventually faces the same choice: Do we want to solve this now—or keep solving it forever? I was in a product planning meeting recently, talking through how to prioritize a ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

“Too Many!” Sometimes one is too many. One ringing smartphone during a solemn ceremony in church — too many. To a cattle rancher, one hungry wolf eating calves — too many. One persistent mosquito in a ...