Chess960's random setups still favor white, new study reveals

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Judge Shopping 'Consequences' Are Worth Keeping Tabs On, Experts Say

"The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts,” said ...
IEEE

Adaptive Accelerated Degradation Test Design for Tweedie Exponential Dispersion Process With Random Effects Based on the Predictive Remaining Useful Life

Abstract: The Tweedie exponential dispersion (TED) process provides a flexible framework for degradation process modeling. To obtain degradation information quickly and realistically, we focus on the ...