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Abstract: Statistical learning with programming can be used to improve statistical literacy, teach students, and promote educational innovations in information-driven universities through ...

Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it. We all want to be thought competent by our peers—to have them think we know ...

Abstract: A two-terminal lossy compression problem motivated by semantic communication is investigated, in which the semantic source is invisible at the encoders, two syntactic sources correlated with ...

So, you want to get better at coding? That’s awesome. There are tons of jobs out there needing people who can write code, like software developers and data scientists. But learning to code isn’t like ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, says this isn’t a new problem. She said it’s a result of decades of unaccountable schools and a broken system that fails students long ...

Cursor, a startup that makes an AI coding tool beloved by engineers, has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation—nearly 12 times the value the company had in January. Accel, which invested in ...