A few weeks of X's algorithm can make you more right-wing—and it doesn't wear off quickly

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Central Force Optimization Applied to the PBM Suite of Antenna Benchmarks ()

Real-world optimization problems often require an external “modeling engine” that computes fitnesses or data that are then input to an objective function. These programs often have much longer ...
GeekWire

Code.org lays off 18 employees ‘to ensure long-term sustainability’ at education nonprofit

Seattle-based Code.org laid off 18 employees, or about 14% of its staff, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire on Wednesday. Following the cuts, Code.org’s staff now numbers 107. “Code.org has made the ...
justthenews

Musk's X releases source code for platform's algorithm

Elon Musk's X on Tuesday released its source code for the social media platform's feed algorithm. X's source code release is one of the first ever made by a large social platform, Cryptonews.com ...
Reuters

Musk's X to open source new algorithm in seven days

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...
csis.org

The Pentagon’s AI Problem Isn’t Algorithms, It’s Evaluation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Government Technology

Code.org Initiative to Expand Digital Literacy Beyond Coding

Over a decade after introducing students to the fundamentals of computer science through its Hour of Code campaign, education nonprofit Code.org is broadening its reach with a new program that bridges ...
Marketplace

Export controls on TikTok's algorithm are unique but not unprecedented

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...
Psychology Today

Algorithms and the Erosion of Humanity

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 ...
IEEE

A Two-Stage Soft-Decision Decoding Algorithm for BCH Codes

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a two-stage soft-decision decoding (SDD) algorithm for BCH codes. At the first stage, we search for test error patterns (TEPs ...