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Today we're looking at HyperLogLog, an algorithm that leverages random chance to count the number of distinct items are in a dataset. It does this by tracking the longest run of zeros in a binary ...

The internet is a weird and wonderful place. It's like the world's biggest flea market, where one minute you're looking at a video of a cat, and the next, your targeted ads are trying to sell you a ...

Apple's latest version of iOS seems to be causing hiccups with CarPlay. Some users who installed the update are complaining on X and Reddit about random connection problems and other issues. Also: A ...

Alcoholic drinks are the focus of a medical debate. For decades, medical research suggested that red wine had health benefits. Now, the U.S. Surgeon General has warned us that even moderate alcohol ...

Abstract: In this paper, we consider portfolio adjusting problem in the environment with multiple uncertainties. We establish two kinds of mean-variance adjusting models. The first one is formulated ...

I'm trying to solve an inverse problem to obtain two parameter values, a and b. I want the initial condition at time t=0 to fulfill a relation, e.g. x_t0 = a/b. Since I have to initialize a and b as ...

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Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series “3 Body Problem.” I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ...