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.

From ancient bartering to lightning-fast market algorithms, this documentary traces the evolution of the systems powering the global economy. It begins with early face-to-face exchanges, where goods ...

Large language models (LLMs) leverage unsupervised learning to capture statistical patterns within vast amounts of text data. At the core of these models lies the Transformer architecture, which ...

The cyclical, now AI-fueled, “SEO is dead” panic cycle is in full swing. But here’s what most of those headlines miss: Search isn’t a platform, it’s a behavior. Whether people are typing into Google ...

Did you ever think there would be a time when wind and solar generation produced more electricity than coal-fired power plants? That’s what happened last year and many experts say this event ...

This repository implement MFEA-II MFEA-II Official Matlab Version. Tested on MTSOO benchmark. This repo could be used as a template or starter code for conducting multitasking optimization on other ...

ABSTRACT: Supply chain networks, which integrate nodes such as suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers to achieve efficient coordination and allocation of resources, serve as a critical component in ...

Abstract: The integration of renewable energy sources (RES) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) into electrical power distribution systems (EPDS) is growing rapidly, but presents challenges like ...