Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Taxes are going up. Debt is skyrocketing. Priorities are out of whack. The government is rounding up citizens. And what are the parties doing? Gerrymandering for power. What is the president doing?
You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...
Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...
Abstract: Reliability analysis is an important part of investigating a system and its components. In reliability analysis, it is necessary to select an appropriate representation for the system and a ...
As a TV writer in Los Angeles, I’m surrounded by people who talk, endlessly, about the power of stories. “Stories shape the world,” they say, as they gulp another oat-milk cortado. “Stories matter.” ...
The movie Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire’s novel and the Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, defied gravity by kicking off a worldwide cultural event that resonates strongly ...
End-to-end (E2E) neural networks have emerged as flexible and accurate models for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, as the number of supported languages increases, particularly ...