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 ...

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Abstract: The Steiner Forest Problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem in operations research and computer science. Given an undirected graph with non-negative weights for edges and ...

Greedy people often take more than they need and don’t have much sympathy for the people they take from. There are several reasons for this, but one in particular is that greedy people will never ...

This week I interviewed Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, about her Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act. If you don’t know what algorithmic collusion is, it’s time to get educated, ...

The new dark comedy thriller aims for Coen-level crime in a small town, but tonal issues and a less-than-stellar script let Potsy Ponciroli’s new movie down. Darkly comic crime thrillers are a tricky ...

In this darkly comedic crime thriller, rookie cop Will (Himesh Patel) and his rogue partner Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) upend their small island town when they accidentally discover one million ...