Abstract: Character Distance Sampling (CDS) is part of a broader class of string matching techniques that leverage sampling strategies. These methods provide an effective compromise between the ...

Team and individual notes from Wisconsin's 78-75 win over Minnesota at Williams Arena Tuesday night, giving the Badgers (12-5, 4-2 Big Ten) their third straight conference victory and second away from ...

In 1998, astronomers discovered dark energy. The finding, which transformed our conception of the cosmos, came with a little-known consequence: It threw a wrench into the already daunting task of ...

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Meaning the Erlang compiler can't easily optimise the pattern matching yielding code that can be up to 24x times slower compared to a regular "a" <> rest -> todo (which instead is compiler to the fast ...

String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to combine general relativity and quantum field theory ...