Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...

Singer Brantley Gilbert Defends TPUSA’s Alternative Halftime: ‘It’s Been More Than 20 Years Since a Country Artist Has Been Asked to Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show’

Country singer Brantley Gilbert defended doing the TPUSA alternative halftime, saying it's been more than 20 years since a ...

Country Star Issues Bold Statement Over His Decision to Headline Super Bowl LX’s Alternative Halftime Show

Brantley Gilbert is opening up about his decision to headline Turning Point USA’s All-American Super Bowl Half-TimeShow, an ...

Compensating Balance: Definition, Examples, and Accounting Guidelines

Learn what a compensating balance is, how it can affect loan terms, its role in business borrowing, plus key examples and accounting rules.
Hacker

Evaluating Conditional Statements in JavaScript

Your browser does not support the audio element. Hello everyone, as you know, I love JavaScript. This is my favorite programming language and I like to talk about it ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Stop Writing Vision Statements. Do This Instead.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Your vision statement is like a participation trophy on your website. It rests there, grammatically correct but strategically blurry, inspiring no one. Reflect on ...
Wall Street Journal

Wealthy Families Are Writing Mission Statements to Avoid Fights, Lost Fortunes

Serial entrepreneur and investor James Harold Webb has done careful investment and estate planning to pass down his wealth to his five children, their three spouses, and six grandchildren. He also got ...
Beebom

Bash If, Elif, and If Else Explained with Examples

Bash Scripts are essential for easing the lives of sys admins, developers, and Linux users in general. And an integral part of bash scripting is conditional statements, i.e. if, else if, and if else ...
C&EN

Six Tips for Writing an Effective Teaching Statement

Teaching is a major component of almost all faculty positions. Surprisingly, then, even an almost complete lack of experience and training–in teaching and student learning–will probably not prove to ...
Wired

Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...
Psychology Today

How to Write a Personal Statement

For nearly 40 years I've been mentoring and advising students as they apply for spots in professional schools--law school, medical school, nursing programs, doctoral programs, and MFA programs, as ...
Slate

Inside the Heated Controversy That’s Tearing a Writing Community Apart

It was an emotionally dark and stormy night in 2020 when I had the urge to write a novel. I’d been having panic attacks. To work through it, I decided to write a novel about an isolated mom and a ...