Algorithms

A magazine filled with articles showing how algorithms are spreading into our every day lives, for better or for worse.

Tom Falk
Puzzles
Finding Expected Values using Monte Carlo Simulation: An Introduction
towardsdatascience.com - Adithya Shettar
Tutorial on solving common probability puzzles using Monte Carlo Simulation in Python If you’re someone who is interested in solving probability …
2 days ago
Tom Falk
Science
A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads
WIRED - Gregory Barber
Adam Kucharski didn’t expect to publish a book about contagion in the middle of a global pandemic. But consider him less surprised than the rest of …
July 7
Tom Falk
Science
Codemakers find algorithms immune to quantum hacks
sciencemag.org
AAAS login provides access to Science for AAAS members, and access to other journals in the Science family to users who have purchased individual …
July 6
Tom Falk
Insurance
How researchers analyzed Allstate’s car insurance algorithm
TNW - The Markup
State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto insurance
July 5
Tom Falk
Galaxies
How the Golden Ratio Manifests in Nature
treehugger.com
The universe may be chaotic and unpredictable, but it's also a highly organized physical realm bound by the laws of mathematics. One of the most …
July 4