The key concept here is that of the entropic Ruzsa distance between two random variables taking values , defined as where are independent copies of , and denotes the Shannon entropy of . This distance is symmetric and non-negative, and obeys the triangle inequality for any random variables ...
The new Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln set out 161 years ago to save the United States from break up. James Russell Lowell, The Atlantic magazine’s first editor, wrote: “The Republicans know that true policy is gradual in its advances, that it is conditional and not absolute, that ...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
While industry experience is very helpful, technical knowledgeisn’tenough to make someone a successful entrepreneur. As shared in Michael Gerber’s book “The E-Myth,” an excellent barista may fail at opening a coffee shop because he or she has no experience hiring employees or marketing a b...
The Walrus operator (:=) was introduced in Python 3.8, it can be useful in situations where you'd want to assign values to variables within an expression.def some_func(): # Assume some expensive computation here # time.sleep(1000) return 5 # So instead of, if some_func(): print(...
Write “T” for true and “F” for false.___ 1) Sometimes you can ignore other people’s suggestions about how to study.___ 2) Sometimes the teacher’s approach may not suit you.___ 3) You need to set overall goals as well as immediate goals for your language learning.___...
Altogether, the synthesis shows a predominance of five main constraints: lack of land and tenure insecurity, insufficient government support, restricted market access, limited access to productive factors, and inequality issues. Specifically, while the review showed that most barriers are linked and ...
When adding two floating-point numbers, if their exponents are different, one of the significands will have to be shifted to make the radix points line up, slowing down the operation. In the = 16, p = 1 system, all the numbers between 1 and 15 have the same exponent, and so no ...
Hardly any jurisprudential appraisal of the relationship between matters of fact (i.e. ‘is’), matters of values (i.e. ‘ought’), and global semiotics can do without inquiring into the reasoning that law teachers, students, and practitioners employ to find legal norms and apply them. For...
Literary themes are narratives’ central, unifying elements that communicate messages about life, society, humanity, the world, etc. Examples of themes in writing include good versus evil, coming of age, loyalty, betrayal, justice, and power. A theme can make a work of writing resonate more de...