For three decades, the classic 4% rule has been the shorthand answer to a brutally complex question: how much you can safely spend from your portfolio each year without running out of money. That ...

With half the basketball season complete and a quarter of the conference schedule in the books, it’s time to take a serious ...

English look at AI and the way its text generation works. Covering word generation and tokenization through probability scores, to help ...

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

Finding π using random numbers and probability. This short demonstrates a Monte Carlo approach, showing how randomness and statistics can converge to an accurate estimate of pi through repeated trials ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...