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 ...

As one of the important statistical methods, quantile regression (QR) extends traditional regression analysis. In QR, various quantiles of the response variable are modeled as linear functions of the ...

For difficult problems, in our context, problems on highly deformed meshes, the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method may converge slowly, because the linear system is very poorly conditioned, and expensive ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...