Tag: algorithm

August 30, 2018 at 1:30 pm

When Your Name Is Too Rude for a Website’s Algorithm

When Your Name Is Too Rude for a Website's Algorithm

The phenomenon is so common there’s even a name for it, the ‘Scunthorpe problem’

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December 19, 2017 at 1:28 pm

How Machines Actually ‘Learn’

How Machines Actually 'Learn'

How the algorithms all around us learn to do their jobs

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November 27, 2017 at 2:49 pm

Renaissance Portraits Made From Single Thread on Circular Loom

Renaissance Portraits Made From Single Thread on Circular Loom

Petro Vrellis wraps a single, 1-2 km long thread, 3000-4000 times across a 200-peg loom

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November 7, 2017 at 3:40 pm

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

At Cloudflare HQ there’s a wall of lava lamps that keeps a good bit of the internet secure, here’s how

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September 9, 2015 at 11:12 am

This Algorithm Turns Your Photos Into the Style of a Famous Painting

This Algorithm Turns Your Photos Into the Style of a Famous Painting

Researchers at the University of Tubingen have devised an algorithm that can analyze a painting and then apply its ‘style’ to any image.

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