The women behind "Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground Crowd" are back with another fun math game they call Function Machines. I introduced Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman last ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For a long time, computer scientists struggled to develop artificial intelligence that could solve ...

Then to optimize over that linear model they’ll show you gradient descent, and again you’ll note, “Well, that’s just calculus!” Support vector machines? Merely convex optimization. Naive Bayes? Just ...

Mathematica is programmable, high-end math software with a steep learning curve. For those of us with more modest calculation requirements (and pocketbooks), Mathematica Calc-Center 3, based on the ...