The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

As e-commerce platforms generate ever-longer streams of user-behavior data, machine-learning methods are increasingly examined for their ability to model how customer interests form and shift over ...

Categorizing patients with cancer by their disease stage can be an important tool when conducting administrative claims-based studies. As claims databases frequently do not capture this information, ...

Google’s Willow quantum processor ran a specific algorithm 13,000 times faster than a classical supercomputer, according to results published in Nature. The experiment measured out-of-time-order ...

Background Users often regard the 2022 WHO verbal autopsy (VA) instrument as lengthy and time-consuming to implement, emphasising the need for a more concise and practical tool, particularly for use ...