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Watching hours of “sheepdog YouTube”—competitions where trained dogs shepherd a small number of unpredictable sheep—gave ...

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

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Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.

Data science and machine learning algorithms can help us form probabilistic forecasts of things like sporting events.

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Random number generators have been around for ages, but they often have subtle imperfections that cause patterns to emerge.

The “lazy influencer” is finished. Social media hierarchies stayed frozen for a decade. If a content creator hit a million followers in 2016, they owned that crowd. It was a closed system where huge ...