Gyaltsan (center) teaches students how to use his multiplication chart at a primary school in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region. [Photo by PALDEN NYIMA/CHINA DAILY] Gyaltsan, a Tibetan man from Nyingchi ...
Abstract: The problem of straggler mitigation in distributed matrix multiplication (DMM) is considered for a large number of worker nodes and a fixed small finite field. Polynomial codes and matdot ...
Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) do not appear to worsen kidney function compared with the histamine 2 receptor blocker ranitidine based on two measures, a large cohort study from Spain finds. In fact, ...
The last time I went to the doctor, I lived in a different zip code, belonged to a different body-weight category, and was rounding out a different decade. I never consciously swore off health care, ...
Currying in JavaScript involves transforming a function with multiple arguments into a series of functions, each taking one argument. This technique can be achieved using bind or closures. For example ...
ABSTRACT: It is explicitly shown how the Schwarzschild Black Hole Entropy (in all dimensions) emerges from truly point mass sources at r=0 due to a non-vanishing scalar curvature involving the Dirac ...
Join us for an engaging conversation with Catherine Pakaluk and Tim Carney, the authors of two important new books that explore the source of the current fertility crisis and what we might do to fix ...