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- UCLA has published a powerful new image-detection algorithm http://www.pcworld.com/article/3032243/ucla-just-open-sourced-a-powerful-new-image-detection-algorithm.html 38 comments
- The Power Algorithm http://videlalvaro.github.io/2014/03/the-power-algorithm.html 42 comments programming
- 7 Essential Algorithms that Power the Modern World https://interestingengineering.com/7-essential-algorithms-that-run-the-world 39 comments compsci
- Mathematicians use Sudoku to understand a mysterious, powerful algorithm http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/39529/title/math_trek__the_sudoku_solution 3 comments science
- The case for SigUSD on Ergo as a Sound Algorithmic Stablecoin to Power Crypto https://crypto.news/sigusd-ergo-algorithmic-stablecoin-crypto/ 35 comments cryptocurrency
- The power of algorithmic programming: Creating a PID Controller. https://youtu.be/dynSWBXu9aA 6 comments learnprogramming
- The capital protection and growth project powered by a modular Algorithm http://algovesti.space 3 comments artificial
- I used Googe's PageRank algorithm to do an NBA Power Ranking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank 9 comments nba
- A powerful, open-source, TypeScript-based algorithmic trading system https://github.com/austin-starks/NextTrade 2 comments javascript
- Cambridge Analytica used powerful algorithms to trawl through Facebook user data, here’s how they worked https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/video/cambridge-analytica-used-powerful-algorithms-to-trawl-through-facebook-user-data-here-s-how-they-worked-1196142147506 8 comments worldnews
- Spinlocks revisited, a powerful yet simple algorithm to speed up both contended and unconteded locks in the Linux kernel http://lwn.net/articles/590243/ 11 comments programming
- EvoPrompt – Evolutionary Algorithms Meets Prompt Engineering. A Powerful Duo https://nexustrade.io/blog/evoprompt--evolutionary-algorithms-meets-prompt-engineering-a-powerful-duo-20240205 27 comments programming
- New algorithm predicts processor power consumption trillions of times per second while requiring little power or circuitry of its own https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211210103100.htm 34 comments hardware
- Theo Jansen: wind-powered "beach creatures" based on genetic algorithms http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/162?resubmit=yes 2 comments reddit.com
- US immigration enforcement used an AI-powered tool to scan social media posts "derogatory" to the US | "The government should not be using algorithms to scrutinize our social media posts" https://www.techspot.com/news/100642-ice-used-ai-powered-tool-scan-social-media.html 216 comments technology
- Powerful rare-earth free magnet is ‘evolved’ and refined by machine learning algorithm https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/powerful-rare-earth-free-magnet-evolved-and-refined-by-machine-learning-algorithm/4016605.article 29 comments science
- Algorithmic Warfare: Lab Powers Up to Plug In Next-Gen Supercomputers https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/7/26/lab-powers-up-to-plug-in-next-gen-supercomputers 4 comments technology
- New powerful deep learning algorithm can detect Alzheimer’s six years before doctors https://newatlas.com/ai-algorithm-pet-scan-alzheimers-diagnosis/57138/?fbclid=iwar36homrs4lansf4jjh2kp1qwyqpmtwtv4jqfucekjwrmoarwrwvugpcxx8 4 comments artificial
- CIA claims it can predict some social unrest up to 5 days ahead - Thanks to the power of algorithms, machine learning, and open source data sets. https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/05/cia-claims-it-can-predict-some-social-unrest-up-to-5-days-ahead/ 7 comments privacy
- Google turns the awesome power of its algorithms to tracking down the perfect little black dress http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/google-turns-its-algorithm-power-on-finding-the-perfect-little-black-dress-5845 4 comments technology
- By developing specialised Quantum Circuits using structured matrices, it is possible to significantly reduce the data input bottlenecks that currently dominate the runtimes of Quantum Algorithms, thus allowing more of the available Quantum Processing Power to focus on useful computation. https://quantumpositioned.com/block-encoding-matrices-speed-up/ 13 comments science
- Quside unveils the world's first Randomness Processing Unit or RPU. This component measures quantum processes to generate truly random numbers, with much greater speed and power efficiency than CPU-side pseudorandom algorithms. https://quside.com/quside-unveils-the-worlds-first-randomness-processing-unit/ 36 comments hardware
- Next digiKam 8.0.0: Image Quality Sorting algorithm gain a new parser powered with deep learning to identify aesthetic photos. This work come from a student project working with us during Google Summer of Code 2022. See the student blog for technical details: https://phuockhanhle.github.io/jekyll/u https://community.kde.org/GSoc/2022/StatusReports/PhuocKhanhLe 3 comments kde
- Social media users may trust AI as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, furthermore allowing users to provide feedback to the algorithm enhances trust by increasing user agency. Findings may help developers design better AI-powered content curation systems https://www.psu.edu/news/institute-computational-and-data-sciences/story/users-trust-ai-much-humans-flagging-problematic/ 18 comments science
- China Big Tech ‘less powerful’ under Beijing’s tough new data privacy law: PIPL applies to any company that processes the personal information of anyone in China - key aspect of the legislation is its ban on algorithmic price discrimination https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3146078/china-data-privacy-big-tech-will-be-lot-less-powerful-after-beijing?amp%3Bfbclid=IwAR3Y4qD_yopOKCpMddp2YNQENjgg3MVQKh2Z8be3nb0QjCIXjhEAHN8RBP4&%3Butm_medium=Social&%3Butm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1629761638 29 comments worldnews
- Powerful algorithms used by Netflix, Amazon and Facebook can 'predict' the biological language of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, scientists have found https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2019053118 5 comments science
- Chinese AI Is Creating an Axis of Autocracy -- Xi wants to use AI’s awesome analytical powers to push China to the cutting edge of surveillance. He wants to build an all-seeing digital system of social control, patrolled by precog algorithms that identify potential dissenters in real time. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/ 130 comments worldnews
- Uncle Sam wants to tackle bias in algorithms by ordering tech corps to explain how their machines really work: "New bill grants the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] powers to investigate companies" [United States of America] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/10/us_ai_bill/ 7 comments cogsci
- For those of you who, like me, didn't get it at first, Jonathan Toomim's proposed algorithm would not only defend against history being rewritten, it would also protect against the worst kind of a attack a powerful (state?) actor could perform on Bitcoin: 51% DoS. Bitcoin Cash only, BTW. ;-) https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/9zrmtx/a_better_antireorg_algorithm_using_firstseen/eadpw8c 46 comments btc
- Does having 2 coins with the same POW algorithm leave the coin with less hashing power vulnerable to an attack from the miners of the coin with more hashing power? https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6v089x/does_having_2_coins_with_the_same_pow_algorithm/ 15 comments btc
- New algorithm to make simplified, computationally efficient/fast, neuron representations: seeding a new, more biologically faithful, more powerful, AI http://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12868-015-0162-6 15 comments artificial
- Machine Learning Algorithm Spots Depression in Speech Patterns - It may wind up being a powerful tool in assessing difficult-to-diagnose conditions. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/machine-learning-algorithm-spots-depression-based-on-speech-patterns 3 comments cogsci
- UCLA just open-sourced a powerful new image-detection algorithm http://www.pcworld.com/article/3032243/open-source-tools/ucla-just-open-sourced-a-powerful-new-image-detection-algorithm.html 3 comments programming
- Algorithms reveal forecasting power of tweets: Researchers used 500 million tweets to develop algorithms that not only paint a picture of everyday human dynamics, but can predict an individual's behavior hours in advance http://discovere.binghamton.edu/features/tweets-5853.html 4 comments science
- "The most powerful distributor of news in the world is not News Corp or the New York Times. It is an algorithm governing how items are displayed to the billion active users on Facebook.' http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2014/aug/31/tech-giants-facebook-twitter-algorithm-editorial-values 4 comments technews
- A new algorithm developed at Stanford University could give computers the power to more reliably interpret language. Called Neural Analysis of Sentiment — or NaSent for short — the algorithm seeks to improve on current methods of written language analysis http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/nasent-deep-learning/ 4 comments linguistics
- Lossless compresson of the Fibonacci sequence to fit into N bit space 64, 32, 24 (any desired power of eight) [x-post from algorithms] http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithms/comments/1gumnb/someone_once_asked_me_how_to_store_every/ 7 comments compsci
- A group of computer scientists led by John Kleinberg (essentially the grandfather of PageRank) has developed an algorithm that detects and quantifies power relationships between humans by tracking unconscious mimicry of grammar. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27437/#.tvibwwotala.reddit 3 comments science
- Was Last Week's Market Crash a Direct Attack By Financial Terrorists? In a market where 70 percent of all trades are executed by computer algorithms via High Frequency Trading, Goldman Sachs has the power to make the market crash or rise at will. http://www.alternet.org/economy/146793/was_last_week%27s_market_crash_a_direct_attack_by_financial_terrorists/ 4 comments economy
- Was Last Week's Market Crash a Direct Attack By Financial Terrorists? -- In a market where 70 percent of all trades are executed by computer algorithms via High Frequency Trading, Goldman Sachs has the power to make the market crash or rise at will. http://www.alternet.org/economy/146793/was_last_week's_market_crash_a_direct_attack_by_financial_terrorists/ 6 comments politics