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During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

The Opensource DeepSeek R1 model and the distilled local versions are shaking up the AI community. The Deepseek models are the best performing open source models and are highly useful as agents and ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks prices and employment, faces scrutiny after several missteps. Some questions have gone unanswered. By Ben Casselman and Jeanna Smialek It has been a rough ...

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