Nowadays everyone at least has a passing understanding of what an algorithm is – it’s the clever bit of tech wizardry that’s employed by seemingly every app or platform we interact with. Their uses ...

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In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...

United States Army researchers have developed a unique algorithm that can predict the right amount of coffee which can produce peak alertness. The algorithm takes into account several features ...