Milwaukee Independent

U.S. children make little improvement in math on national exams and fall further behind in reading

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of ...
Edutopia

7 Research-Backed Ways to Boost Working Memory in Math

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...
IEEE

Cross-Entropy Firefly Algorithm-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problems

Abstract: The Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FFSP) involves scheduling jobs across multiple machines with flexible operation sequences. As an NP-hard problem with discrete variables and ...
The Center Square

Helene: Cash flow in small towns is problem FEMA cannot fix

(The Center Square) – Like many towns in western North Carolina, Beech Mountain was heavily damaged by Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024. The town suffered about $30 million in damage, much of it ...
IEEE

A Data-and-Model-Driven Acceleration Approach for Large-Scale Network-Constrained Unit Commitment Problem With Uncertainty

Abstract: Numerous binary variables and constraints greatly affect the computation of large-scale network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) problems. With the integration of massive renewable energy ...
financial-world

MIT says 95% see no AI returns; Scale argues firms chose the wrong problems

Ninety-five percent of companies experimenting with artificial intelligence are not making money from it, MIT reported last month. Jason Droege, the new chief executive of Scale AI, thinks he knows ...