Like many Chinese Americans my age and older, I have fond memories of going to San Francisco’s now-scarce Chinese banquet halls to mark milestones and celebrations. My parents had a 600-person wedding ...

The Powerball jackpot is now at $1.6 billion for the Monday, Dec. 22 drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers following a drawing on Dec. 20. The jackpot, with an estimated cash value of $753.3 ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

With the Powerball jackpot reaching nearly $1.8 billion for Saturday night's drawing, there's been lottery fever in the air. If you're one of the lucky ones whose $2 ticket ends up worth millions, ...

MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The speed and efficiency of traditionally developed software applications is limited by the fact ...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...

A windowed sinc function can implement a low-pass filter, and a two-dimensional convolutional filter can blur or sharpen images. In part 3 of this series, we introduced a low-pass filter based on the ...

Q. Could you explain how the AGGREGATE function works in Excel? A. AGGREGATE is possibly the most versatile function in Excel. Think of it as an advanced version of the SUBTOTAL function that offers ...

A moving-average filter can address white noise in the time domain but performs poorly in the frequency domain. Figure 1. The convolution engine calculates y(tn) for n=6 (a) and then goes on to ...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently emailed over 2 million federal employees an offer to pay eight months of salary in exchange for resignation. Initiated by the newly launched ...