Scientific American

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...
Frontiers

Data-Driven Model of Postsynaptic Currents Mediated by NMDA or AMPA Receptors in Striatal Neurons

The majority of excitatory synapses in the brain uses glutamate as neurotransmitter, and the synaptic transmission is primarily mediated by AMPA and NMDA receptors in postsynaptic neurons. Here, we ...
Frontiers

Partial Directed Coherence and the Vector Autoregressive Modelling Myth and a Caveat

Here we dispel the lingering myth that Partial Directed Coherence is a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Modelling dependent concept. In fact, our examples show that it is spectral factorization that lies ...
Hacker

Calculating the Square Root of a Number using the Newton-Raphson Method [A How To Guide]

CS Grad Student at UAH, Former Data Scientist, The World Bank -- views, content my own and not of my employers. CS Grad Student at UAH, Former Data Scientist, The World Bank -- views, content my own ...