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 queen of downhill skiing is well and truly back. Lindsey Vonn raced to a stunningly fast win in a World Cup downhill on Friday to earn her first victory in nearly eight years — and the first in ...

Niche Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (NHGA) is an Advanced Optimisation Method that Combines the Strengths of Niche Techniques in Genetic Algorithms (GAs) with Local Search Methods, Typically the ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

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

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Downhole seismic testing; Site characterization; Absorption estimation; Fermat’s principle; Spectral ratio technique; Iterative forward modeling The apparent attenuation due refraction at an interface ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the latest federal update, released Wednesday. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, ...

Lake Mead's water levels are at their second lowest on Thanksgiving since 2019, despite intense winter storms bringing an early dump of snow to the mountains that feed the troubled Colorado River ...

It is with a heavy heart that I share sad news with you — Panther Nation has lost one of its own today. Out of respect for the student's family, we are sharing no further information at this time. Our ...

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 resulted in numerous infections and deaths. In order to better study the transmission of COVID-19, this article adopts an improved fractional-order SIR model ...