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 ...
USA Today

Videos capture trees seemingly 'explode' in extreme cold

Bitterly cold arctic air has blanketed parts of the United States over the last week, with some areas getting snow and subzero temperatures. Along with the cold weather comes a natural event called ...
CNN

What are ‘exploding trees’? The winter phenomenon may not be what you think

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...
The New York Times

No, Trees Don’t Explode When It Gets Cold, but They Do Go Pop

While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury that comes with the extreme cold, experts say. By Adeel Hassan Snap, crackle and, sometimes, a ...
The Washington Post

Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...
NPR

2 Senators want to hold big tech accountable for harms caused by algorithms

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch with Pointers Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...
Forbes

The Secret Life Of Algorithms

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...
The Conversation

TikTok’s new owner puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. TikTok announced on Jan. 22, 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...
GameSpot

Check Out This Lego Star Wars AT-ST UCS Bundle Deal Before It's Gone

As part of Walmart's Bricktember Sale, Star Wars fans can get Lego's Darth Vader Helmet display model for only $10 with the purchase of the AT-ST Walker Ultimate Collector Series. The AT-ST Walker ...
IEEE

An Alpha-Tree Algorithm for Massively Parallel Architectures

Abstract: The alpha-tree, also known as the quasi-flat zone hierarchy is a widely used representation of images in Mathematical Morphology. This structure organizes the regions according to a ...