This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We reconsider the classical lot-size model with the assumption that demand rate is deterministic, starts at the origin, and linearly increases ...

We're living through one of the strangest inversions in software engineering history. For decades, the goal was determinism; building systems that behave the same way every time. Now we're layering ...

A research article by Horace He and the Thinking Machines Lab (X-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati founded) addresses a long-standing ...

This paper presents a new deterministic annealing metaheuristic for the fleet size and mix vehicle-routing problem with time windows. The objective is to service, at minimal total cost, a set of ...

Technological civilization stands before an existential paradox. While the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) grows ...

In his review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s “Existential Physics” (Bookshelf Aug. 11), Julian Baggini quotes the author’s argument that free will is impossible because “according to the currently ...