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the system can be modelled using some function for which we have a fixed number of unknown parameters (though there will be some amount of random noise which can't be modelled). We have some form of (fairly uninformative) prior belief more...

There is no simple pattern.

“build your own fully functional Enigma machine.”

Sixty-six percent of respondents are meeting the New Year in a good mood, seeing themselves as well-off people. Forty-one percent say they have medium incomes, and 21 percent assess themselves as low-income earners. The statistical error is within 3.4 percent.

huge collection of computer graphics papers

Google utilizes unusually mathematically oriented recruitment techniques.

Ball is a statistician – not exactly a profession usually associated with human rights defense. But the Human Rights Data Analysis Group that he heads at Benetech, a technology company with a social justice focus, is bringing the power of more...

“The “Droste effect” is when images recursively include themselves.”

“a novel system for animating characters whose morphologies are unknown at the time the animation is created.”

“Of the many works of fiction that are published, very few involve mathematics or mathematicians. However, people who like mathematics (or are mathematicians ourselves) may especially enjoy reading those few that do.”

and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.

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