Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
TMCnet

Data Normalization vs. Standardization: What's the Difference and When to Use Each

Data Normalization vs. Standardization is one of the most foundational yet often misunderstood topics in machine learning and ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Cumulative Link Modeling of Ordinal Outcomes in the National Health Interview Survey Data: Application to Depressive Symptom Severity ()

Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA. While traditional CLMs with logit or probit links are widely used, they may not always be appropriate. Each CLM ...
Computer Weekly

AI slop pushes data governance towards zero-trust models

Unverified and low-quality data generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models – often known as AI slop – is forcing more security leaders to look to zero-trust models for data governance, with 50% ...
WEAU

Menomonie City Council passes new definition for data center projects

MENOMONIE, Wis. (WEAU0 - Menomonie City Council voted unanimously Monday night to create a new zoning ordinance for data center projects. This comes after the city experienced major push back from a ...
Wired

The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here

Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private. “AI agents, in order to have their full ...
RealClearMarkets

Theories About Meaning of Contradictory Econ Data

Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the contradictions have been especially jarring. Just a week apart, the government delivered two sharply conflicting messages. One report ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Agresti, A. (2010) Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data. Wiley.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the application of cumulative link models with alternative distributions (hyperbolic secant, Laplace, and Cauchy) to model ordinal outcomes of depressive severity ...
The New York Times

3 Theories of What’s Going On With the Contradictory Economic Data

Mr. Furman, a contributing Opinion writer, was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the ...
The Indianapolis Star

A new state law gives you more power over personal data. How to use it

A new law taking effect Jan. 1 will give Hoosiers for the first time the power to know and exercise control over the way their personal data is used by companies, or used at all. The Indiana Consumer ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Virginia data center tax incentives nearly doubled last year, meaning the state lost out on $1B

Since 2010, data centers in Virginia have not had to pay the state’s sales and use tax. At a rate of 4.3%, that foregone revenue adds up: Over the past decade, data centers have been exempt from ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Why So Much Is Riding on the Data Center Boom

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs prefer to talk of possibilities rather than obstacles, and of vast revenue opportunities to be seized through sheer force of will. That defiant optimism now faces the ...