The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Famed Method actor Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t think the technique deserves the bad rap it’s gotten over the past few years. He also swears he’s not in a cult. (Hear that, Brian Cox?) “All the recent ...

Have you ever found yourself sifting through endless rows of data, trying to confirm whether a specific item exists? It’s a tedious, error-prone process that can derail even the most organized ...

Simplex Trading, a Chicago-based firm, announced the appointment of Dennis Kerlin as its new chief compliance officer. The proprietary market-making firm works with advanced technology and software to ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Step inside Great Hearts Harveston on any given morning, and you’ll find classrooms humming with focus and energy. In one room, second graders practice phonograms, carefully forming letters while ...

When Andrew Grigolyunovich first started using Excel more than two decades ago, he never imagined the spreadsheet program would land him in Las Vegas or on ESPN. The Latvian financial consultant ...

Introduction: In unsupervised learning, data clustering is essential. However, many current algorithms have issues like early convergence, inadequate local search capabilities, and trouble processing ...

Objective Estimate the incidence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in infants under 90 days in the UK and Ireland and describe clinical presentation and outcomes. Design Prospective ...