Abstract: The climatic sensitivity of new terrain-aware backtracking algorithms is evaluated across 800 locations in the continental USA on a representative synthetic rolling terrain. We find that a ...

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Currently, AlgoVisualizer does not include any visualization for constraint-based problems like Sudoku. This makes it difficult for learners ...

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 ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his love for tariffs. He has even called tariff “the most beautiful word” in the dictionary. But in reality, his affection is more of an infatuation than true ...

President Donald Trump announced that he would consider rejoining the World Health Organization (WHO) if someone were to "clean it up a little" and the U.S. were to contribute significantly less money ...

If we thought 2024 was bad for efforts to make schools and workplaces more inclusive, it’s looking even worse in 2025. When I last wrote about attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion about a year ...