HubOpinion

The political calculus—and actual math—of gerrymandering

JHU mathematician Emily Riehl explains how a surprising amount of math goes into determining who ends up in the U.S. House of ...
Slate

I Was in a Music Rut. I Blame the Algorithm. I Found a Simple Way to Break Out Of It.

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I am useless without background music. A writer by day and an avid concertgoer by night, I relied for years on Spotify to provide my soundtrack ...
Vogue

Skater Sneakers Are Back—And They’re Cooler Than You Remember ’Em

Now, with spring shoe drops in full swing, we’re seeing the skater effect come full circle—although today’s spin-offs feel much more nuanced and polished, far from the “Sk8ter Boi” vibes of the early ...
GitHub

Motor-Learning-Lab/albert-em-port

This package provides a complete, high-performance Python implementation of the Expectation-Maximization algorithm for fitting two-state models of motor learning. The implementation uses Numba JIT ...
IEEE

A New CFAR Detector Based on the EM Algorithm

Abstract: This paper proposes a simple Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) approach relying on the expectation-maximization algorithm to deal with clutter edges. The possible signal backscattered from a ...
Forbes

Female U.S. Professionals Boost ME+EM As Luxury Brand Keeps It Simple

If you are a fan of ME+EM then chances are you may well be a busy female professional who previously felt neglected by a youth-obsessed fashion industry. And, it turns out, if the British modern ...
techxplore

Simple algorithm uses electron microscopy to predict lithium battery failure risk

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: ...
Finextra

What’s the Best Dynamic Risk Scoring Algorithm?

Financial crime risk is not static. A customer’s risk profile can shift rapidly with new transactions, behaviors, or data. Yet historically, many financial institutions relied on one-time or ...
BGR

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 ...