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 ...

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 ...

We received a report from a user that dual simplex is producing the wrong sign for lagrange multipliers associated with rows in the form a_i^T x >= b. Internally, these rows are first converted to ...

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Small businesses thrive on TikTok thanks to an algorithm that evaluates each video independently. User engagement (likes, comments, shares, saves), watch time and relevant content are more important ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Abstract: Growing power demand and depletion of conventional energy resources are the predominant reasons for distributed generators (DG) penetration into micro grid. The conventional protection ...