That is genetic algorithms, it takes a base function, creates a random string (something that seems typed by a monkey) checks if it is similar and give an score, then does this a couple of times ...

Fortune magazine recently featured a story about the 10-year-old matchmaking site eHarmony, which has recently embraced the age of the algorithm. It has developed a formula that looks at hundreds ...

Marc Andreessen wrote in 2011 that "software is eating the world."If this is true, then algorithms are doing much of the digesting. Big data of 21st century exabyte scale is useless without ...

D. Sc., Professor Leonid Sokolinsky has derived a formula to evaluate the effectiveness of parallel algorithms. For four years, the scientist worked at the Supercomputer Simulation Laboratory at South ...

The researchers call the phenomenon "algorithm aversion," where "algorithm" is intended broadly, to encompass — as they write — "any evidence-based forecasting formula or rule." If algorithm ...