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 ...

The email would lead to the $1 million acquisition of her company. But when it landed in her in-box in September 2016, Ashley Murphy thought it was spam. The co-founder of Neat Method, a ...

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 ...

Looking at the connection genes, they do not keep track of any global historical marker. Apparently the only thing they're keyed on are the start nodes and end nodes. A (start node, end node) key is ...

The goal of this project is to evaluate and improve Neuroevolution as a machine learning technique in a wide variety of complex environments provided by real-time computer games. To date, we have used ...

Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: When learning how to drink whiskey and enjoy its nuances, there’s no right or wrong way. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I’ve been told to swirl my ...

This project demonstrates reinforcement learning via a self balancing pendulum. The idea is that there is a pendulum which is locked to move left and right on a fixed axis. In order to balance the ...

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 ...