The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...

Distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the wrong order.” Today, we know, the ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they ...

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 ...

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting?

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When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

Scientists have mapped the atomic interactions that make nanoscale catalysts so effective at converting propane into propylene. The discovery highlights a stabilizing oxide pattern that could guide ...