Fungal disease, climate change threaten Colorado's prized peaches

In western Colorado, home to the treasured Palisade peach, cytospora canker is one of the most consequential fungal diseases ...
The Guardian

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...
KJCT8

Arbor Day tree seedlings available to Grand Junction residents

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Grand Junction residents can now sign up for free tree seedlings as part of the city’s annual Arbor Day program, which opened Friday morning at 9 a.m. The program is ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

How the world's largest tree species ended up in Grand Junction

With a natural range limited to a few stretches of forest in California, the giant sequoia is known for one feature above all else: its sheer size. The largest tree species on the planet by volume ...
Reuters

What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...
AOL

Essex Junction tree removal scheduled for Thursday to cause lane closures

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – Tree removal previously scheduled for earlier this month will take place December 18, at the median on Pearl Street. Temporary one-lane closures will be in place ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
Forbes

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...
Scientific American

The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...
IEEE

Bayesian Networks Inference algorithm based on improved Junction Tree Algorithm

Abstract: The Junction Tree Algorithm (JTA) algorithm is an important inference algorithm in Bayesian Networks (BN). It has a wide range of applications in electromagnetic interference and threat ...