This was the week that I accidentally taught my nearly ten-year-old son binary. And I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear. It all started innocently enough. He had a week vacation, and on one of those ...

Computers use coding to get instructions and do the things they do. Have you ever seen the inside of a computer? Wires carry information through the machine in the form of electricity. The two options ...

Gray code is a systematic ordering of binary numbers in a way that each successive value differs from the previous one in ...

The goal of a machine learning binary classification problem is to predict a variable that has exactly two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex of a company employee (male = ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook’s explanations for how its heavily promoted AI algorithms ...