Hands-on learning is praised as the best way to understand AI internals. The conversation aims to be technical without ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

This repository provides a solution to the standard Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW). In a CVRPTW, we aim to optimize the routes of a fleet of vehicles serving customers ...

A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

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Abstract: This paper investigates the Flexible Layout Design Problem (FLDP), which involves a set of stations arranged in a matrix-structured manufacturing system (MMS). Initially, the main objectives ...

School mathematics mainly embraces algorithmic problem solving, pays less attention to strategic reasoning, and rarely contains insightful problem solving. Based on our previous research, we ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...