With our homes now far less festive than they were just days ago, we turn our attention to the New Year. In doing so, many of us will choose to make New Year’s resolutions. If you have done this, then ...

Self-tuning histograms have been proposed in the past as an attempt to leverage feedback from query execution. However, the focus thus far has been on histograms that only store cardinalities. In this ...

McDonald's Corporation MCD is betting big that a comprehensive value reset, centered on revamped Extra Value Meals (EVMs) and a more disciplined national value architecture, can help reverse two years ...

Children and families in Southern Indiana are quite fortunate to have a variety of programs for young people. Without even attempting a comprehensive list, and listing only a limited number of ...

While knocking on thousands of doors across District 1 this fall, one thing became clear: Worcester’s politics are far more economically conservative than most people realize. This reality was most ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a fast-parallel method for singular value thresholding, aimed at low-rank analysis of many small matrices. In low-rank analysis, the problem of regularizing the nuclear ...

Last weekend was a reminder of how quickly the ocean can turn dangerous. Despite the immediate and skilled response of our lifeguards, we tragically lost a visitor to the Gulf. It’s a loss that weighs ...

It has been almost three weeks since I returned from vacation and playtime is over. My memories of jumping into the ocean and kayaking in the Adirondacks with my best friends are fleeting as my to-do ...

No matter what is running through your mind, one thing we probably never spend time mulling over is why we think the things we do. To view the 2025 Tax Digest click the image on the left.

It’s been quite the summer for Lakers jealousy, hasn’t it? For example, in July, Bleacher Report left Kobe Bryant — the fourth-leading scorer in NBA history — off its Top 10 all-time player list. In ...