A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

block-insertion-theorem is a reproducible reference implementation of a combinatorial result about block insertion and counting linear extensions of posets. The repository provides a formal JSON ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Yibin University, Yibin, China 2 School of Computer and Software, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China Ever since Density Peak Clustering (DPC) ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...

On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper ...

Abstract: The K-nearest neighbors (kNNs) algorithm, a cornerstone of supervised learning, relies on similarity measures constrained by real-number-based distance metrics. A critical limitation of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Abstract: Nearest Insertion Algorithm is heuristic algorithm which has been proven a successful technique applied on number of combinatorial optimization problems. Nearest Neighbor Insertion Algorithm ...

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