What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the ...

Luhn Algorithm: Verify Credit Card Numbers & Ensure Accuracy

Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...
Ars Technica

Google has a useful quantum algorithm that outperforms a supercomputer

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
GitHub

Enhance Graph Algorithms Page with Step-by-Step Visualizations and Pseudocode

I noticed that the Graph Algorithms section does not yet include the interactive and educational features that were recently introduced in the Sorting Algorithms page I would like to contribute by ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...
Quanta Magazine

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.
IEEE

Program Synthesis with Algorithm Pseudocode Guidance

Abstract: The limitation of the current program synthesis method is that the synthesized program is small in scale and simple in logic. In this work, we introduce an effective program synthesis ...
Quanta Magazine

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
Frontiers

Oppositional chaotic artificial hummingbird algorithm on engineering design optimization

This paper proposes an enhanced-search form of the newly designed artificial hummingbird algorithm (AHA), named oppositional chaotic artificial hummingbird algorithm. The proposed OCAHA methodology ...
IEEE

Simulation and Analysis of the PMF-FFT Pseudocode Acquisition Algorithm

Abstract: In the process of low orbit satellite navigation search and rescue, there is significant relative motion between the satellite and the ground, resulting in substantial Doppler frequency ...