Modern Software Engineering – Part 3: Documentation
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Read moreBounds on the incomplete beta function (beta CDF)
The incomplete beta function is defined by It is called incomplete because the limit of integration doesn’t necessarily run all the way up to 1. When z = 1 the incomplete beta function is simply the beta function discussed in the previous post [1]. The incomplete beta function is proportional
Read moreUpper and lower bounds on the beta function
The beta function B(x, y) is defined by and is the normalizing constant for the beta probability distribution. It is related to the gamma function via The beta function comes up often in applications. It can be challenging to work with, however, and so estimates for the function are welcome.
Read more15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023
As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year. As expected, it appears a good mix of investors wrote checks at the rate they’d aimed for,
Read moreFintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind of financial services startup aimed at undocumented immigrants, Brex’s official recommitment
Read moreThe Attention Economy with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer, Dentsu Canada and Bookstores Come Back with James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble
Two great interview shows for you this weekend: The Attention Economy – A study by Dentsu Canada and interview with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer In 2015 Time Magazine published a story with the headline “You Now Have A Shorter Attention Span Than A Goldfish.” Supposedly this was based on
Read morenth root of n!
Last week the function came up in a blog post. as the solution to the equation n! = bn. After writing that post I stumbled upon an article [1] that begins by saying, in my notation, The function b(x) … has many applications in pure and applied mathematics. The article mentions a
Read moreActivation functions and Iverson brackets
Neural network activation functions transform the output of one layer of the neural net into the input for another layer. These functions are nonlinear because the universal approximation theorem, the theorem that basically says a two-layer neural net can approximate any function, requires these functions to be nonlinear. Activation functions
Read moreThe entire story of Twitter under Elon Musk
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Forget Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company — Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter. Elon Musk owns Twitter, and his new big idea is charging people to read more than a few hundred tweets per day. Verified Twitter Blue subscribers can
Read moreNetflix axes its basic plan in Canada, IRL shuts down and Shein’s influencer stunt backfires
It’s that time of week again, folks. Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular digest of the past week in tech. New here? Not to worry — sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday, then read on for the week’s recap. This week, we’re covering
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