Programmers have called parts of their program that don’t quite work ‘bugs’ for decades, but a programming legend believed that this term ...

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Abstract: Urban traffic congestion remains a critical challenge for modern cities, impacting travel efficiency, environmental sustainability, and quality of life. This paper introduces the Collective ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

Abstract: This full research paper explores undergraduate students' misconceptions of Dijkstra's algorithm quantitatively. Graph algorithm misconceptions have been studied to a modest extent, but they ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

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.