This repository hosts Python/Octave/Matlab code of the Preconditioned ICA for Real Data (Picard) and Picard-O algorithms. See the documentation. Picard is an algorithm for maximum likelihood ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks. For ...