The algorithm failed music

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop.

Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing’s Math

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...
Tech Times

The Secret Behind Viral TikTok Trends: How the Algorithm Drives Short-Form Video Marketing

TikTok trends go viral faster thanks to its algorithm, short-form videos, and creator tools that drive engagement and shape ...
InfoQ

CodeClash Benchmarks LLMs through Multi-Round Coding Competitions

Researchers from Standford, Princeton, and Cornell have developed a new benchmark to better evaluate coding abilities of large language models (LLMs). Called CodeClash, the new benchmark pits LLMs ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Algorithm–HW Co-Design Framework for Accelerating Attention in Large-Context Scenarios (Cornell)

Compute-Enabled Memory to Accelerate Large-Context LLMs via Sparse Attention” was published by researchers at Cornell ...

'Algorithms of oppression': Big tech urged to combat discrimination

Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_SCI 396, 496: Advanced Algorithm Design through the Lens of Competitive Programming

This is an advanced undergraduate course on algorithms. This course examines such topics as greedy algorithms, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, string processing, and algorithms for ...