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 ...

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Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Abstract: Estimating an unknown deterministic parameter vector with a linear estimator in a noisy linear model is well-known in statistics. This paper studies the open problem in [1], i.e., developing ...

Google announced a new multi-vector retrieval algorithm called MUVERA that speeds up retrieval and ranking, and improves accuracy. The algorithm can be used for search, recommender systems (like ...

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or does an algorithm ...

The SEO industry is undergoing a profound transformation in 2025. As large language models (LLMs) increasingly power search experiences, success now depends on withstanding traditional algorithm ...

Google has officially begun rolling out its March 2025 core algorithm update, according to an announcement posted to the Google Search Status Dashboard today. The update commenced at 9:23 AM PDT and ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

The old Babylonian algorithm, a remarkable mathematical artifact from ancient Mesopotamia (around 1800–1600 BC), has long been a subject of fascination to scholars. This ancient algorithm not only ...