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Clarkson University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can uncover the mathematical equations ...

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Seven months after an outbreak of botulism linked to ByHeart infant formula, investigations are still ongoing into how the ...

Simple stock picking formulas can beat the market, but higher volatility and tracking error make them hard for investors to stick with.

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Abstract: In this paper we describe a class of cryptographic guess-and-determine attacks which is based on the notion of a linearizing set. A linearizing set-based ...

Most optimization problems in control theory assume you're working in flat space. You have a system, you want to steer it from one state to another, and you minimize some cost along the way. This ...

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