Greed isn’t always as obvious as someone hoarding stacks of gold like a modern-day dragon. Sometimes, it’s subtle, wrapped in polished manners, or cleverly disguised as ambition. The signs of greed ...

Ms. Jong-Fast is a contributing Opinion writer. Donald Trump has never been much for gratitude or giving back. The notion that he owes anybody anything for his success is anathema to his winners-gonna ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...

Apple has finally taken off the shackles, driven by its robust iOS ecosystem and strong iPhone upgrade cycle. AAPL's dominance is further reinforced by its walled garden strategy, growing Services ...

Abstract: We present a simple performance bound for the greedy scheme in string optimization problems. Our approach generalizes the family of greedy curvature bounds established by Conforti and ...

Implement Huffman Coding, a greedy algorithm used in file compression (ZIP, JPEG, etc.) that encodes data based on character frequency. Count frequency of each character. Build a min-heap tree based ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

We publish the best academic work (that's too often lost to peer reviews & the TA's desk) to the global tech community ...

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 ...