How Mexico's ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...
Health Affairs

When Cost Control Ignores the Data: Why the IRA Fails to Address Cardiovascular Disparities

Publisher's note: This series was paid for by National Minority Quality Forum. The views expressed are the authors' own. The Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) drug price negotiation provisions are ...
Baseball Prospectus

PECOTA Projections

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...
EDN

Self-correcting codes conquer noise, part one: Viterbi codecs

FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...