It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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You are the benevolent ruler of The Republic of Graphistan, and you want to modernize the roads between cities—widening them, repaving them, turning them into superhighways. But it’s complicated. When ...

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Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarre interviewed more than 50 victims, families, police, government officials and other experts about Spain’s gender violence program. In a small apartment outside ...

Get it when you need it (GIWYNI) is my handle. Knowledge can clog your creativity.. A FIFO buffer is a commonly needed data structure for many use-cases. Items are put into the buffer and retrieved in ...