Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Adaptive Algorithm Aims to Reduce Kidney Discards and Improve Transplant Access

Developed by Professor Sanjay Mehrotra, the Sliding Scale AdaptiVe Expedited (SAVE) algorithm could improve organ allocation ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
Scientific American

How two mathematicians created an equation that quietly runs the planet

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...
Decrypt

There’s a Way to Make Bitcoin Safe From Quantum Without a Fork, Researchers Say

Research suggests Bitcoin users could defend against future quantum attacks using a transaction design that works within ...
Berkman Klein Center

Understanding algorithms — and how to make them work for you

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...
CNBC

A Google AI breakthrough is pressuring memory chip stocks from Samsung to Micron

Google said this week that its research on a new compression method could reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models by six times. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron shares fell as ...
Nature

Brief Communications

A standardized, realistic phantom dataset consisting of ground-truth annotations for six diverse molecular species is provided as a community resource for cryo-electron-tomography algorithm ...
GitHub

Parallel network simplex algorithm for the minimum cost flow problem.

This code is structured as a standalone tool to use as a solver for DIMACS minimum cost flow problem files. Solution is then given as a DIMACS minimum cost flow solution file optionally with flow ...
Investopedia

Precedent Transaction Analysis Explained: Valuation Method and Key Takeaways

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...
BBC

Short division using written methods

When you are doing division, it's helpful to use a written method. This can be especially useful if the numbers get too big to calculate in your head. If the number you are dividing by (this is called ...