When Optimization Is a Trap

When an algorithm exploits, it risks missing out on a better option or failing to adapt to a changing environment. Anyone who ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
IEEE

Efficient implementation of randomized quantum algorithms with dynamic circuits

Abstract: Randomized algorithms are crucial subroutines in quantum computing, but the requirement to execute many types of circuits on a real quantum device has been challenging to their extensive ...
Wall Street Journal

The Algorithm Will See You Now

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Can’t Quit the Lecture? Try Quasi-Active Learning

Step into most college classrooms today and you will likely see a familiar scene: slides glowing at the front, a professor lecturing, students scribbling notes or staring at laptops. Despite decades ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book of Toni Morrison’s University Lectures, Now Collected for the First Time, Shares Some of the Legendary Novelist’s Most Important Lessons

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...
The Atlantic

The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...
The Conversation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...
IEEE

Randomized Iterative Algorithms for Distributed Massive MIMO Detection

Abstract: Distributed detection over decentralized baseband architectures has emerged as an important problem in the uplink massive MIMO systems. In this paper, the classic Kaczmarz method is fully ...
The Times Leader

Wilkes University to host annual Rosenn Lecture

Bestselling author Amor Towles will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15. Bestselling author Amor Towles will deliver the annual ...