Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

ABSTRACT: The Collatz Conjecture asserts that for all positive integers s , every Syracuse integer sequence defined by T( s )=s/2 if s is even, and T( s )= ( 3s+1 )/2 otherwise, eventually reaches 1 ...

1 The Official College of Telecommunications Engineers, Madrid, Spain. 2 Independent Researcher, Majadahonda, Spain. A reduced conjecture, equivalent to the Collatz conjecture, has been proposed; see ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

Abstract: Collatz conjecture (or 3x+1 problem) has been explored for about 80 years. By now the largest number that has been verified for Collatz conjecture is about 60 bits. In this paper, we propose ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...