The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 resulted in numerous infections and deaths. In order to better study the transmission of COVID-19, this article adopts an improved fractional-order SIR model ...

In an era where data is often hailed as the new oil, organizations are tempted to collect as much information as possible. They believe every extra piece of data holds the key to innovation, profit or ...

Dozens of neo-Nazis are fleeing Telegram and moving to a relatively unknown secret chat app that has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. While ISD stopped short of naming SimpleX in its ...

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as initially adopted (or subsequently amended until 2020) did not contain the principle of data minimization. A ...

Collecting data allows businesses to glean essential information for improving processes, reducing costs, better serving customers and more. However, it also comes with risk: Every organization that ...

Calling it a “perfect fit,” Ben Londergan is eager to join Simplex Trading as the first Managing Director of Strategic Business Development. CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simplex Trading, a leader in the ...

As U.S. regulators begin to enforce the concept of data minimization for the protection of personal information, the age of unfettered data retention is coming to an end. Various states have enacted ...

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