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How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem
The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...
Every Premier League VAR error: Winners and losers, referee stats
Which Premier League clubs got the worst of the VAR gaffes? Which actually benefited from mistakes? We've got all the answers ...
Baseball is mostly mistakes. How else can we learn grace?
Clayton Kershaw's humble reaction in 2014 when a teammate botched a 'perfect game' epitomizes the lesson unique to this sport ...
Contributor: Baseball is mostly mistakes. How else can we learn grace?
Clayton Kershaw's humble reaction in 2014 when a teammate botched a 'perfect game' epitomizes the lesson unique to this sport ...
IEEE1d
New Simple Approximations for Error Probability and Outage in Fading
Abstract: A new class of approximations for the bit error rate (BER), the symbol error rate (SER), and the outage of wireless digital communication systems impaired ...
Off-target shots: How the rise of the ‘good miss’ is aiding talent ID in football
Off-target shots are football’s missed opportunity, in more ways than one. As the analytics revolution began to sweep through ...
IEEE4d
Probability of error analysis of digital partial response continuous phase modulation with noncoherent detection in mobile radio channels
Abstract: An analysis is presented of noncoherent detection of constant-envelope digital partial-response continuous-phase modulation (PRCPM) in fast Rayleigh fading that characterizes land mobile ...