The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

Solving many scientific and technical applications entails the use of matrix multiplies somewhere in the algorithm and thus the computer code. With today’s multicore CPUs, proper use of complier ...

Google’s DeepMind has been using applied reinforced learning techniques to the multiplication of mathematical matrices and can do it better than some 50 year-old human-made algorithms. Bored with ...