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When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

A long-standing challenge in statistical mechanics has been to quantify the nonequilibrium nature of active systems such as swarming bacteria, schooling fish, and flocking birds. The entropy ...

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OMEN is a Markov model-based password guesser written in C. It generates password candidates according to their occurrence probabilities, i.e., it outputs most likely passwords first. OMEN ...

Ocean waves and the wind in the lower marine atmospheric boundary layer play crucial roles in the air-sea interactions and are both vital for the control of the weather and of the climate system. One ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. As a supervised machine learning algorithm, conditional random fields are mainly used ...