Abstract: One-shot devices, such as automotive airbags, fire extinguishers and ammunitions, pose significant challenges in their reliability analysis due to their inherently unobservable lifespans.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Would Warren Buffett’s investment strategy be any different if he were a young man investing for the first time today, compared to when he got started back in the 1940s? This is the question someone ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. For regression analysis [David] includes statsmodels and Pingouin. If you’re not familiar with ...

Learn how to build a simple linear regression model in C++ using the least squares method. This step-by-step tutorial walks you through calculating the slope and intercept, predicting new values, and ...

This C library provides efficient implementations of linear regression algorithms, including support for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and data normalization techniques. It is designed for easy ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

For centuries, we have relied on human intuition, behavioral cues, and painstaking manual analysis to determine veracity in written communications. Enter artificial intelligence. AI algorithms, ...