Repeating distance patterns let optical systems tackle large optimization problems

From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down ...
Tech Xplore

Professor pushes computers to solve 'unsolvable' problems

Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
Time

8 Signs You’re the Problem in Your Arguments

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PNAS

Optimization via the strategic law of large numbers

This work proposes a framework for global optimization, showing that global optimization is equivalent to optimal strategy formation in a two-armed decision problem with known distributions, based on ...
MD&M East

The Year Medtronic Set an Example for Supply Chain Optimization

Each year when MD+DI editors sit down to discuss Medtech Company of the Year prospects, the companies that rise to the top for us tend to be those that have had a transformational year either through ...
IEEE

The Multiobjective Optimization Problem of Guaranteed Cost Control for Semi-Markovian Jump Systems Through Networks

Abstract: This article addresses the multiobjective optimization problem (MOP) of guaranteed cost control (GCC) for semi-Markov jump systems (s-MJSs) under a network environment. To address the ...
Time

The Human-AI Alignment Problem

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IEEE

Multidomain Evolutionary Optimization on Combinatorial Problems in Complex Networks

Abstract: Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multitask evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems by ...
The New York Times

5 Steps to Solve (Almost) Any Problem

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...
Psychology Today

When Self-Optimization Fails

Picture this: I’m hunched over a garage floor, scrubbing away at the gunky paint remover I’ve spread over a fire-engine-red paint to make way for the aesthetically-pleasing home gym that’s going to ...