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MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation.

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nothing is certain except death, taxes — and uncertainty. From the mundane (“what’s for breakfast?”) to the ...