Washington State Daily Evergreen

OPINION: AI is ruining our writing — and the em dash is the perfect example

I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much on semi-colons and em dashes.” It was true — I overused these punctuation ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ho, H.J., Pyne, S. and Lin, T.I. (2011) Maximum Likelihood Inference for Mixtures of Skew Student-T-Normal Distributions through Practical Em-Type Algorithms. Statistics and ...

ABSTRACT: For an independent and identically distributed skew-t-normal random sequence, this paper establishes the limit distribution of normalized sample range M n − m n . Based on the optimal ...
financefeeds

Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...
Variety

AI Becomes Hollywood’s New Secret Weapon in Talent Negotiations: ‘The Data Doesn’t Lie’

With “Heads of State,” Chopra Jonas generated more than double the buzz of her male co-stars, according to an AI breakdown based on volume, headlines and quoting intensity. The conversation around the ...
Yahoo

Squid Game’s unnecessary final season is another example of algorithms trumping art

There’s a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...
Frontiers

Expectation-maximization alternating least squares for tensor network logistic regression

1 Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Aichi, Japan 2 RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Tokyo, Japan In recent years, a learning method for classifiers using ...
Variety

Bob Iger Says ‘Thunderbolts*’ Is ‘First and Best’ Example of Marvel’s New Movie Strategy: ‘We Lost a Little Focus by Making Too Much’

Disney‘s CEO Bob Iger has admitted the company’s film slate has struggled in post-pandemic times by focusing too much on quantity and not enough on quality. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, in ...
IEEE

Fully Adaptive and Semi-Adaptive Frequency Sweep Algorithm Exploiting Loewner-State Model for EM Simulation of Multiport Systems

Abstract: This article employs a fully adaptive and semi-adaptive frequency sweep (AFS) algorithm using the Loewner matrix (LM)-based state model for the electromagnetic simulation. The proposed ...