Verdicts against social media companies carry consequences. But questions linger

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived at the front of a wave of ...
Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...
IEEE

The Universal LZ77 Compression Algorithm Is Essentially Optimal for Individual Finite-Length

Abstract: Consider the case where consecutive blocks of N letters of a semi-infinite individual sequence X over a finite alphabet are being compressed into binary sequences by some one-to-one mapping.
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From Reel to Algorithm: How Streaming Changed What Gets Made in Canadian Film

In 2017, a Canadian screenwriter with two festival-screened features behind her spent eighteen months developing a crime drama with a major broadcaster. The project collapsed — not on creative grounds ...
The Guardian

I traded Spotify with an MP3 player for a week. Life outside the algorithm was rough

No algorithm, no endless playlists, no podcasts on demand. Just a handful of albums, wired headphones and a lot of silence Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, ...
IEEE

On Evaluation of Data Stream Clustering Algorithms: A Survey

Abstract: Data stream mining is a research area that has grown enormously in recent years. The main challenge is extracting knowledge in real-time from a possibly unbounded data stream. Clustering, a ...