Should you take Social Security at 62? Consider these 4 factors.

Americans are most likely to claim Social Security benefits at 62. But is it the "best" age? We examine 4 big reasons for ...

Predicting This Year’s Oscar Winners Using Just Math

A category-by-category look at odds on favorites, per a mathematical formula that factors in awards season data and ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Time to accelerate integration of human factors and ergonomics in patient safety

Progress toward improving patient safety has been slow despite engagement of the health care community in improvement efforts. A potential reason for this sluggish pace is the inadequate integration ...
IEEE

Robust Color Image Hashing With Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Saliency Map for Copy Detection

Abstract: Image hashing is an effective technique for copy detection. This article proposes a robust color image hashing scheme with nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) and saliency maps. The ...

How Rakeback Changes the Math of Online Poker

Online poker looks like a skill game, but the fee matters as much as the cards. That fee is the rake, and it quietly pulls ...
IEEE

Projective non-negative matrix factorization for unsupervised graph clustering

Abstract: We develop an unsupervised graph clustering and image segmentation algorithm based on non-negative matrix factorization. We consider arbitrarily represented visual signals (in 2D or 3D) and ...