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Trading places: meet the physicists-turned-analysts who are driving the frontiers of finance

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His ‘Machine’ Could Uncover the Origin of Human Consciousness—And if It Truly ...

One scientist’s unorthodox method could finally explain where your “soul” goes when you die, precognition, and everything in ...

Your organization runs on answers and AI just made that a problem

Every business starts by solving a problem no one has solved before. Over time, it refines that approach into an algorithm it ...
IEEE

Weapon Target Assessment With Dynamic Hit Probabilities and Heterogeneous Targets: A Two ...

Abstract: As a classic optimization problem, the weapon target assignment (WTA) problem is widely studied. However, existing WTA models are mostly established on single-hit destruction and static hit ...

The AI Paradox: Why World-Class Algorithms Fail On Second-Class Data

In 2026, tech leaders are learning a painful lesson: the problem with scaling AI adoption isn't understanding the algorithm, ...

Women Business Leaders on How To Solve AI’s Inclusivity Problem

Top executives at Takeda, PepsiCo and Meta discuss making AI more inclusive and preparing the next generation of women ...
IEEE

Discrete Starfish Optimization Algorithm for Symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem

Abstract: This paper introduces a new discrete StarFish Optimization Algorithm (D-SFOA) to solve a complex discrete Symmetric Travelling Salesman Problem (STSP). The discrete SFOA algorithm is ...