The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
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A FIR computing characteristic analysis method based on arithmetic mean filtering

Abstract: Arithmetic mean filtering is a widely used digital filtering method. In engineering applications, the number of filtering operation points N should usually be selected according to the ...
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The White House underscores the seriousness of the formula shortage: “A critically important issue”

The infant formula shortage is an ongoing crisis that’s impacting families across the country—and causing huge amounts of stress and worry in the process. “We’re putting more money towards formula, we ...
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Better computer vision under video compression, an example using mean shift tracking

Abstract: In this paper, our goal is to understand what needs to be done to enable computer vision algorithms running on uncompressed image sequences to run as well on image sequences that have ...
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They don't teach these mean Excel functions in school but they're super handy

The GEOMEAN and HARMEAN are advanced statistical functions that typically require a deeper understanding of mathematics. This ...