For all 4 algorithms, more balanced classes (multiplier: 0.93-0.96 for a 1% increase in minority class proportion) were associated with decreased sample size. Other characteristics varied in ...

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In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

From private information retrieval to federated learning, new approaches to securing information are not only resulting in practical data security solutions but also ways of rethinking data ...

The recent murder of Brian Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare—the largest health insurance company in the United States—has sparked widespread debate about the practices of insurance ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...