JSTOR Daily

A Second-Order Approximation to the Log-Likelihood Surface for Mixture Models, with Application to the EM Algorithm

This article considers a new approximation to the log-likelihood surface in mixture models. This approximation is based on both the mean and variance of the full-data log-likelihood over imputations ...
JSTOR Daily

Discretization and Validation of the Continuum Approximation Scheme for Terminal System Design

This paper proposes an algorithm that automatically translates the "continuum approximation" (CA) recipes for location problems into discrete designs. It applies to terminal systems, but can also be ...
EDN

Challenges & Requirements: Voltage Reference Design for Precision Successive-Approximation ADCs, Part 1

Editor's note: We will publish this article in four sequential parts leading up to our “Ask the experts” session on Precision Voltage References on May 21. Alan Walsh will be one of our experts. The ...
BBC

Museum of the Future: The building designed by an algorithm

Even in a city building as quickly, and as much, as Dubai, the Museum of the Future is known as one of the most challenging construction projects ever attempted. In Dubai, where tower blocks seem to ...
ExtremeTech

Automated design process creates smallest, most efficient photonic switch ever

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