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Math & Algorithms
The most popular blog posts about math & algorithms on Hacker News. 49 posts.
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An Intro to Integer Programming for Engineers: Simplified Bus Scheduling
Explore what’s new, what’s next, and what should be on your radar in the world of transportation. Our insights are supported by real-world data from our partners across the globe.
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How are PCA and SVD related?
Exploring the relationship between singular value decomposition and principal component analysis.
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Theoretical Machine Learning Lecture Series: Deep Learning and Cognition
Deep learning, which is the reemergence of artificial neural networks, has recently succeeded as an approach towards artificial intelligence. In many fields, including computational linguistics, deep learning approaches have largely displaced earlier machine learning approaches, due to the superior performance they…
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Why category theory matters in programming
Divide and conquer has been a core strategy in software engineering. We decompose our systems into smaller modules with focused, simple…
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Nonlinear Computation in Deep Linear Networks
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (2015)
by Erin Baldinger, University of Minnesota; Shawn Broderick, Keene State College; Eileen Murray, Montclair State University; Nick Wasserman, Columbia University; and Diana White, Contributing Editor , University of Colorado Denver.
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Same Stats, Different Graphs: Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Stats
Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to...
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Lessons from the History of Attacks on Secure Hash Functions
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Most of the secure hash functions ever designed have turned out to be vulnerable to collision attacks.
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Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics
Roger Highfield explores the beauty of mathematics at a recent event at the Science Museum
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Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Is SHA-3 slow?
In a recent post , Adam Langley complains that “SHA-3 is slow”. Similar comments appear from time to time on the web (see also David Wong's post ). But what does it mean precisely? Let us dig into it.
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Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained
A look at why Chebyshev's Inequality holds true and some potential applications.