Abstract: In this article, the problem of distributed optimization with nonconvex objective functions is studied by employing a network of agents. Each agent only has access to a noisy estimate on the ...

The market crack on Friday resulted from a defensive move as geopolitical stress, trade rhetoric, and political dysfunction ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

Chalkbeat reports NAEP scores show major declines in 12th-grade math and reading, indicating fewer students are college-ready ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers' reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders' scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

WASHINGTON — A decadelong slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

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If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued a decision 4 Sept. that provided clarity to the EU General Data Protection Regulation's definition of personal data when it is pseudonymized and where ...

The legal definition was established by the U.N. in 1948. LONDON -- The world's largest association of academic scholars studying genocide passed a resolution saying Israel's "policies and actions" in ...

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared that Israel's actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with the association's Emily Sample. The ...

The time I used to spend on Twitter I now spend on Substack, and my life is much better for it. There are a lot of interesting, eclectic writers in the world. This week, for example, I stumbled across ...