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Pre-employment testing and skill assessments are essential for matching qualified candidates with the right roles. According to SHRM, 54% of organizations use pre-hiring assessments to fill open roles, including technical positions. Yet many of these organizations also report that their assessment process provides a less-than-ideal candidate experience, underscoring the need
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Two families of orthogonal polynomials are named after Chebyshev because he explored their properties. These are prosaically named Chebyshev polynomials of the first and second kind. I recently learned there are Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kind as well. You might call these posthumous Chebyshev polynomials. They were
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I recently ran across an interesting family of Pythagorean triples [1]. You can verify that a² + b² = c² for all n. Sparseness When written in binary, a has only two bits set, and c has only four bits set. It’s not as immediately obvious, but b has only
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