From algorithms to AI chatbots, child advocates push for greater protection for NC youth

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Order from disordered proteins: Physics-based algorithm designs biomolecules with custom properties

In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins ...
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The Algorithm

In a standard paper assignment setting, a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $n^{(p)}$ papers needs to be assigned to a set $\mathcal{R}$ of $n^{(r)}$ reviewers. To ensure each ...
GitHub

Biomedical Data Design - Rank Order Code

This repository provides MATLAB code to solve a rank-order assignment problem, matching N doctors with K hospitals based on doctor preferences. The implementation uses the Hungarian algorithm (see ...
eLife

PointTree: Automatic and accurate reconstruction of long-range axonal projections of single-neuron

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...
Space.com

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...
Phys.org

Discrimination by recruitment algorithms is a real problem

Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) hiring systems (AHSs) are used by employers every day to screen and shortlist job candidates. But while AI hiring systems promise time and cost savings for ...
Ars Technica

Google DeepMind creates super-advanced AI that can invent new algorithms

Google's DeepMind research division claims its newest AI agent marks a significant step toward using the technology to tackle big problems in math and science. The system, known as AlphaEvolve, is ...
Wired

Google DeepMind’s AI Agent Dreams Up Algorithms Beyond Human Expertise

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...
The Conversation

Women’s sports are fighting an uphill battle against our social media algorithms

Hans Westerbeek does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Frontiers

Hybrid genetic algorithm and Q-learning-based solution for the time-variant berth and quay crane allocation problem

Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering of Shanghai Maritime University, Pudong, China Introduction: This study addresses the joint scheduling optimization of continuous berths and quay cranes ...