Python is convenient and flexible, yet notably slower than other languages for raw computational speed. The Python ecosystem has compensated with tools that make crunching numbers at scale in Python ...

Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster than ever before by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, reports Quanta Magazine. This could eventually ...

A matrix is said to be of Toeplitz type if it has equal elements along diagonals. These matrices, with the additional property of symmetry, arise frequently in statistical work, as covariance matrices ...