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The normal approximation is notoriously [1][2] bad when the binomial proportion you're trying to estimate is small and you don't have a big n. If one still wants a closed-form out-…

As you said the PageRank is just one of the many features used by the ranking algorithm. I highly doubt that there is any patent issue here (it's "just" an eigenvector computation)…

The work of Zubrzycki is impressive. For having studied acoustics quite a bit, I'm very impressed by the fact that the sound manages to have both a very short attack an a very good…

Well if I were Google, I would make sure that the Incognito mode of Chrome prevents targeting except for adwords/adsense. Pretty easy to do when you control the browser...

There are some gross simplifications here: 8. Wavelets are not "recursive Fourier analysis". If you want to make it simple, it's more like a spatially localized Fourier extension. …