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.

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 ...

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Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. No matter how great a title's gameplay may be, there's always the ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Different products given 7500 transactions over the course of a week at a French retail store. We have library(apyori) to calculate the association rule using Apriori ...

1. sudo apt-get install gcc-6 2. sudo apt-get install g++-6 3. sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6 10 4. sudo update-alternatives ...

Introduction: This study represents one of the first attempts to apply association rule mining to the analysis of ball possession in professional men’s football. The goal was to uncover hidden ...

Background purpose: The adjunctive effect of acupuncture for cerebral infarction (CI) remains inconsistent. We aimed to determine its anti-inflammatory effect, assess safety, and summarize the ...