Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, ...

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Starting January 1, 2026, Federal employees and retirees will be able to convert money from their traditional Thrift Savings Plan accounts to a Roth TSP account. Federal employees can make their ...

An optimized genetic algorithm engine for solving large-scale Travelling Salesman Problem instances with custom mutation, crossover, and hyper-parameter tuning.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., this week introduced new legislation aimed at making it easier for federal workers to take advantage of the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program to help ...

The TSP has a balance of over $1,000,000,000,000! I could have said, “one trillion dollars,” but showing the 12 zeroes was much more impressive! Although there were 2,726,000 contributing FERS ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

Starting Sept. 1, female athletes in international competitions must undergo a one-time genetic test to verify biological sex. The test checks for the SRY gene, a determinant of male sex, and can be ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a classic combinatorial optimization problem, has been extensively studied for many years. Recently, the Multi-solution Traveling Salesman Problem ...