Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

A safety demonstration on handling snakes didn’t quite go as planned recently in Thailand. A video shows a fireman struggling to free himself after the snake he was using in the demo wrapped itself ...

The t-SNE ("t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding") technique is a method for visualizing high-dimensional data. The basic t-SNE technique is very specific: It converts data with three or more ...

Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That's what a developer that goes by "BioBootloader" did by creating Wolverine, a program that can give Python programs ...