Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

These days, there’s an argument that AI chatbots are going to lead us towards a kind of healthy consensus of belief, liberating the world from our current era of belief polarization and extremity that ...

Update [Mon 15th Jun 2026, 11:23pm]: Kotaku has since updated its report to mention that, according to one source, Compulsion is in negotiations with Microsoft about its future. Here's the full update ...

Three Xbox studios—Double Fine, Compulsion Games, and Ninja Theory—are currently in danger of closure, with employees able to seek new work as leaders negotiate to try and save what they can, ...

Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs look to tie the series on Wednesday against the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals. On Monday, the Spurs quickly established their presence inside by calling ...

Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass lost "millions of subscribers" after it increased prices by 50% with a price hike in October 2025. "We shed millions of subscribers over the span of a few months," Ball ...

Ninja Theory has cancelled its horror title codenamed Project Mara. Studio head Dom Matthews confirmed the decision after announcing Senua, the third instalment in the Hellblade franchise, at Summer ...

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High-yielders MO and VZ, both at 6%, generate $9,600 in annual taxes at 24% that disappear entirely inside a Roth IRA. The gap years before RMD age 73 let joint filers convert or harvest dividends at ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...