New York Times Graphics Editor Mike Bostock takes us inside the wide world of algorithms. Bostock delves into some pretty esoteric stuff here–topics like sampling (simplifying images through ...

What I consider to be good code might be different from what you think to be good code. Developers often consider the code aesthetics and the style of the code, which may or may not result in good ...

Just last week, Facebook announced that its proprietary algorithm correctly identified faces 97.25 percent of the time—meaning it works almost as well as humans do.

In many areas, we need to come to an ethical, political and legal agreement on what a “correct” decision would look like before entrusting the task to an algorithm. “Even then, we still need to ask ...

An algorithm placing orders in WPCS International Incorporated (WPCS), a communications infrastructure company, has sent/canceled 1.4 million orders since 11am when it turned on. That's a rate of ...

Alan Turing famously wrote this in his groundbreaking 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, and laid the framework for generations of machine learning scientists to follow.Yet, despite ...