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“Now, hurry up and patent Bayesian nonlinear regression before they do it.”

"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about more...

“And now I’ve got an an even more thorough explanation of Monty Hall problems and of the psychological processes that allow us to get suckered”.

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“"fast multipole method" developed for computational physics to rapidly estimate (to arbitrary precision) the conjugate gradient of an error function. (In other words, they tweak the parameters and "get a little better" the next time through the training data.)”

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Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers more...

Numbering a list is a journalistic rule so obvious even E! understands it. But TIME's editors won't stoop to rank the TIME 100. No, they're afraid of hurting people's feelings or making a mistake. So, much like changing the watercooler more...

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Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine more...

The Monty Hall Problem has struck again, and this time it’s not merely embarrassing mathematicians. If the calculations of a Yale economist are correct, there’s a sneaky logical fallacy in some of the most famous experiments in psychology.