As Ebola Surges, 3 in 4 Americans Back Restoring U.S. Aid to Fight It, per New Echelon-Rockefeller Foundation Poll

With the Ebola outbreak the third-largest on record, and growing, survey data from The Rockefeller Foundation and Echelon ...
Physics World

AI-enhanced rare-event sampling helps predict extreme weather

Combining artificial intelligence with physical climate modelling enables more accurate characterization of rare weather ...
Thorax

Comparative performance of endobronchial ultrasound-guided sampling techniques in patients with mediastinal lesions: a network meta-analysis

Background Comparative evidence on the diagnostic yield of endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)-guided sampling techniques for ...
IEEE

Improving the Accuracy of the Adaptive Cross Approximation With a Convergence Criterion Based on Random Sampling

Abstract: The accuracy of the adaptive cross approximation (ACA) algorithm, a popular method for the compression of low-rank matrix blocks in method of moment computations, is sometimes seriously ...
The Times Leader

Americans are inundated with suspected scams. New polling shows why few victims report them

Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal ...

How to Read Polls: Margins of Error, Samples, and Framing

Learning to read a survey means understanding margins of error, sampling, weighting, and media framing, with an essential checklist and glossary.
GitHub

TensorFlow Probability

TensorFlow Probability is a library for probabilistic reasoning and statistical analysis in TensorFlow. As part of the TensorFlow ecosystem, TensorFlow Probability provides integration of ...
IEEE

Distributional Policy Gradient With Distributional Value Function

Abstract: In this article, we propose a distributional policy-gradient method based on distributional reinforcement learning (RL) and policy gradient. Conventional RL algorithms typically estimate the ...