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Every December, the same scene plays out. You walk into a holiday gathering with the intention of drinking eggnog and minding your business…until you’re suddenly fielding a full press junket about ...

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...

We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves ...

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Although investing may seem simple on the surface, making good investments and following up on them efficiently and effectively requires more time and skill than many prospective investors realize.

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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 ...