Ranks of Disparity: New approach fixes flaw in fairness algorithms

As organizations increasingly rely on algorithms to rank candidates for jobs, university spots, and financial services, a new ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

How the Earth and moon formed, explained

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...
IGN

Severance Ending Explained: Biggest WTF and Burning Questions from the Season 1 Finale

This post contains spoilers for Severance. This article breaks down Severance Season 1's ending. If you're caught up through Season 2, check out our Severance Season 2 Ending Explained. In a world ...
IGN

Spider-Man 2 Ending Explained: How Insomniac Sets Up the Next Sequel

Warning: this article contains full spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man 2! Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has finally landed on PC, and it gives superhero fans on a new platform the chance to have the same wild ...
EDN

Self-correcting codes conquer noise, part one: Viterbi codecs

FEC (forward-error-correction) techniques correct errors at the receiver end of digital communications systems. In contrast with error-detection and retransmission ...
Baseball Prospectus

PECOTA Projections

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...