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Q. I use Excel to do traditional linear forecasting, but I would like to upgrade to exponential smoothing for more accurate forecasts. Is there a way to do this in Excel? A. Accurate forecasting is ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

A groundbreaking new method developed at the University of Osaka calculates the entropy of liquids using a non-empirical approach, requiring only the atomic species as input. The paper is published in ...

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Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...

The current average calculation seems to reflect the method to calculate the smoothing. The smoothing seems to be calculated as a incremental average with some weighting factor that weights the ...