Elastic rebuilds its metrics engine to undercut Datadog, right as ANZ AI budgets blow out

A rebuilt columnar engine, native Prometheus support and agentic investigations that start before anyone gets paged. Elastic ...
Ecommerce Fastlane

Why DTC Brands Stop Growing Even When Their Ads Work

When growth stalls for a DTC brand that already runs solid ads, the limiting factor is often the product itself—too easy to copy, too fragmented to feel like ...
The Boston Globe

The new Red Line seats are drawing complaints from riders. Here’s why.

Some commuters say the reinforced thermoplastic is too slick and flat, with the angle of the seat back too severe. The MBTA ridership may be the ultimate tough crowd: fickle, long-suffering, and slow ...
Harvard Business Review

Kick-Ass Customer Service

Consumers want results—not sympathy. by Matthew Dixon, Lara Ponomareff, Scott Turner and Rick DeLisi Think about the last time you flew. When you checked in, did you use a self-service option—like the ...
IEEE

A Reduced Variable Neighbourhood Search for the Beam Angle Optimisation Problem

Abstract: Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a widely used radiation therapy technique to treat cancer. The main goal in IMRT is to obtain a treatment plan that eliminates cancer cells ...
GitHub

Benchmarking Deep RL Algorithms with Potential-Based Reward Shaping

Code for the project "Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Potential-Based Reward Shaping on LunarLander". This version directly addresses the proposal feedback by increasing the ...