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Bio-inspired computational methods have gained popularity recently. These methods mimic the seemingly complex behavior of organisms to tackle difficult and often overwhelming problems. For example, ...

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Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

The US Border Patrol has revealed what it calls the first “parasitic drug seizure” in Miami. About 3.6 kg of cocaine was “pulled from a ship’s belly”, Border Patrol chief Michael Banks said on X. The ...

In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, donned disguises — wigs and blackface — and set out in their car from Williamsburg, ...

Abstract: A hybrid heuristic approach based on the collaborative combination of a genetic algorithm (GA), a greedy algorithm and another GA integrated with a rectangle packing algorithm is presented ...

A Java-based 3D cargo packing system using greedy heuristics & backtracking. It determines if a truck’s cargo space can be fully filled and calculates the max possible storage value. Includes ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...