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The IRS algorithm trap: 3 digital signals that are flagging high earners

The tax landscape has shifted beneath our feet. What used to be manual reviews and random selections has morphed into ...
Scientific American

Algorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid it

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...
IEEE

A Randomized Caching Algorithm for Distributed Data Access

Abstract: In this paper, we study an online cost optimization problem for distributed data access. The goal of this problem is to dynamically create and delete data copies in a multi-server ...
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 ...
IEEE

PKRK: A High-Performance Parallel Block Randomized Kaczmarz Algorithm for Large-Scale Overdetermined Systems

Abstract: The random Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm is an iterative method to solve overdetermined linear systems and serves as a representative example of row action methods. In this paper, we propose a ...
Reuters

What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

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 ...
financefeeds

Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

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, ...
The Conversation

TikTok’s new owner puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.
Interesting Engineering

Century-old math puzzle that stumped top supercomputers solved by quantum computing

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...