Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to implement a geometry-inspired optimization technique called spiral dynamics optimization (SDO), an alternative to Calculus-based techniques ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

This course offers an introduction to mathematical nonlinear optimization with applications in data science. The theoretical foundation and the fundamental algorithms for nonlinear optimization are ...

The Python programming language is a hit for data science and machine-learning projects on high-powered hardware, but one of its weaknesses is speed. Anaconda, a company that provides a leading ...