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(This article was first published on Win-Vector Blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Differential privacy was originally developed to facilitate secure analysis over sensitive data, with mixed success. It’s back in the news again now, with...

An $\omega$-Turing machine is just a usual Turing machine $T=(Q,\Sigma,\Gamma,\delta,q_0,F)$ where $Q$ is the finite set of states, $\Sigma$ is the input alphabet, $\Gamma\supset\Sigma$ is the tape alphabet, $\delta$ is is the transition relation, $q...

January 22 I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Operations Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and...

I'm now back in my hometown of Cologne after a trip to Mexico, where I had been studying several native plants and animals. On returning, I had the opportunity to consider a recent post by University of Washington geneticist Joe Felsenstein1 at Panda...

In a previous post I showed how to write and solve a unit loss function G(k). Here I show how to use it. Here I solve some (s,Q) inventory models. These models have a variable Q: order quantity. It is sometimes argued to use the EOQ order quantity for...