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4+ hour, 16+ min ago  (555+ words) When taking exams at school to see what job you might be able to get, it is good to try for things you want but also to have realistic expectations. What would you do if you had a student who…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (221+ words) A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Bessel function J(x) with (1 + cos(x))/2. I…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (243+ words) Nano GS aims to render large 3 DGS efficiently while keeping VRAM usage low. Rendering really large Gaussian Splatting files is always challenging. To do it in real-time, you have to manage VRAM carefully, sort millions of splats efficiently, and only…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (587+ words) The University of Scranton's Fall Henry George Lecture, an annual presentation that has featured 13 Nobel Prize winners, recently welcomed William Easterly, Ph. D. , professor of economics and co-director of the Development Research Institute" The University of Scranton's Fall Henry George Lecture,…...

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1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (222+ words) The Inman, a landmark unmissable in downtown Champaign, has been many things since it opened in 1915: a hotel, a television studio, radio transmitter, a dance school, an assisted living facility, and now a restaurant. .. . The Inman, a landmark unmissable in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (294+ words) In the previous two posts, we looked at why Mathematica and Sym Py did not simplify sinh(arccosh(x)) to "(x" " 1) as one might expect. After understanding why sinh(arccosh(x)) doesn't simplify nicely, it's natural to ask why sin(arccos(x)) does…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (82+ words) Brad Sams has more than a decade of writing and publishing experience under his belt including helping to establish new and seasoned publications From breaking news about upcoming Microsoft products to telling the story of how a billion dollar brand…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (439+ words) Mirage News For over 150 years, a rule of thumb dating back to the French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet has been accepted in surface theory: if the metric and mean curvature of a compact surface are known at every point, then…...

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