We made our own version of the Codebreaker sign-cracking algorithm — and talked to pitchers about how to thwart it.

The Data Science Lab Simple Numerical Optimization Using an Evolutionary Algorithm with C# Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says that when quantum computing becomes generally available, ...

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Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks.

Artists have begun searching the space of simple computer programs for algorithms that generate music. Now they want to crowdsource the problem ...

A quantum calculation able to crack one of the most common forms of data encryption has been performed on a silicon chip for the first time. The study demonstrates that complex quantum circuits ...