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We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

Popular food delivery service Instacart has been using a shady algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same grocery items in the same supermarkets without telling them, ...

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In the world of design, even the best-laid plans don’t always go according to plan. Dream projects will have their delays, and ideal clients will have their indecisive moments. Part of being a great ...

Peak Design has revealed a new version of its camera tripod plate that doesn't require any tools, fixing a common complaint its users had with a part used with many of its accessories. Additionally, ...

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Abstract: The sparsity-regularized linear inverse problem has been widely used in many fields, such as remote sensing imaging, image processing and analysis, seismic deconvolution, compressed sensing, ...