The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental ...

This handy accessory helps me save space and stay organized while traveling Written By Written by Staff Editor, Buy Side Madeline Diamond is a staff writer and editor for Buy Side, specializing in ...

I measured the capacity of the packing cubes two ways: by the number of items they could accommodate from my packing list and by the number of packing peanuts they could hold. I also measured the ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

I've been a travel editor for nearly a decade—and a travel enthusiast for far longer than that—so at this point, I feel quite comfortable calling myself a packing expert. I've checked bags on budget ...

Currently, our packing implementation is tightly coupled, making it difficult to introduce new packing algorithms. Furthermore, the existing FirstFit strategy is implemented with Python loops, which ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a ...