The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

At the core of reinforcement learning is the concept that the optimal behavior or action is reinforced by a positive reward. Similar to toddlers learning how to walk who adjust actions based on the ...

A simple and efficient error-diffusion algorithm implementation in digital image processing. To achieve digital halftoning process by converting a gray scale image into a binary image with an ...

One fact about machine learning and data algorithms that may surprise business users is that there aren’t actually that many of them. This topic can get overwhelming for busy professionals. But in ...

Tyler Lacoma has spent more than 10 years testing tech and studying the latest web tool to help keep readers current. He's here for you when you need a how-to guide, explainer, review, or list of the ...

Last year, the stock market suffered what’s now called “the flash crash.” The prices of shares in the US fell by 6 percent in 5 minutes. How could it happen? Algorithms. The algorithms that now ...