A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in ...

A team of EPFL researchers has developed an AI algorithm that can model complex dynamical processes while taking into account ...

Sergio Perez testing for Red Bull during the 2022 preseason F1 test in Barcelona. LLUIS GENE / Getty Images After a short offseason and the biggest set of car design rule changes in recent history, ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

One company choosing to use a quick and reactive pricing algorithm could lead its competitors to increase prices, leading to customers facing higher costs across the board, according to a recent study ...

In 1914, Srinivasa Ramanujan arrived at Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were strikingly efficient, producing accurate digits of the world’s most ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

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IISc physicists discovered that Ramanujan’s classic π-formulas arise naturally in modern theories describing critical phenomena and black holes. The connection suggests his early mathematics may have ...

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