Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

Abstract: This article presents a decision-making algorithm based on a modified version of the Bellman equation to deal with electromagnetic interference errors in a communication channel inside a ...

You can check an interactive Google chart with few benchmark cases for all similarity algorithms in this library through StringsSimilarity function here However, if you want or need more details, you ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

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 ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

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In natural language processing (NLP) and text analysis, we often need to quantify how different two strings are. Two classic edit distance metrics are the Hamming distance and the Levenshtein distance ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...

Last year, fashion publications wrote extensively about the impact of the algorithm on personal style. (Vogue Business included.) In last year’s fashion conversation, ‘the algorithm’ surpassed its ...

Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarre interviewed more than 50 victims, families, police, government officials and other experts about Spain’s gender violence program. In a small apartment outside ...