That Plate You Just Dropped Followed a Weirdly Predictable Rule You’ve Never Heard Of

An elegant new equation identifies the surprisingly orderly, mathematical way in which things break, shatter, and fall apart.
Reader's Digest

Finally! A Definitive List of What Those F1–F12 Keys Do

The function keys on your keyboard are the most powerful computer tools that you're not using. We're going to fix that. Almost every computer keyboard has a row of function keys at the top, but it ...
IEEE

Computing Reeb Graphs as a Union of Contour Trees

Abstract: The Reeb graph of a scalar function tracks the evolution of the topology of its level sets. This paper describes a fast algorithm to compute the Reeb graph of a piecewise-linear (PL) ...
Frontiers

Hubs, influencers, and communities of executive functions: a task-based fMRI graph analysis

Baptist Medical Center, Department of Behavioral Health, Jacksonville, FL, United States Introduction: This study investigates four subdomains of executive functioning—initiation, cognitive inhibition ...
Gizmochina

Oppo Find X8 Pro’s Camera control button: key functions here

The Oppo Find X8 series is set to launch on October 24, and among its new features, the Find X8 Pro introduces a unique camera control button. This addition brings a functionality similar to the ...
SiliconANGLE

Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to ...
IEEE

A method based on a genetic algorithm to find PWL approximations of multivariate nonlinear functions

Abstract: In this paper we present a systematic approach to find piecewise-linear approximations of multivariate continuous nonlinear functions, by ensuring a good trade-off between approximation ...