The probability that the National Bureau of Economic Research will someday determine a national recession began in the U.S. between December 2025 and December 2026 has fallen below twenty percent.

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When you look at your area’s weather forecast you always see the same basic parameters: temperature, wind speed, probability of precipitation, etc. These forecast elements seem quite simple, but one ...

Probability is the hidden engine that powers everything from simple games of chance to complex online gambling systems. For math enthusiasts and strategic thinkers, delving into the mechanics behind ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The precision of a double in Java is 10-324 decimal places, although true mathematical precision ...

When scientists spot an asteroid whose trajectory might take it close to Earth, they monitor it frequently and calculate the probability that it might collide with our planet.

Tabletop games, from the roll of a die in a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) to the strategic placement of cards in a complex board game, are deeply rooted in probability. The comprehension of the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

David Spiegelhalter is emeritus professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck (Penguin, 2024) ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...