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The online sports gambling industry uses data analysts to create forecast models that tilt the odds in their favor. Various strategies have been suggested to beat bookmakers, but their effectiveness remains inconsistent. In a unique approach, we developed a strategy to exploit mispriced odds in football betting markets. Our simulations over a 10-year period and […]
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At 30 years old, Cole Brauer has proven she can conquer the world. She sailed alone around the globe in 130 days, documenting her trip on social media. Being the youngest and only woman in the Global Solo Challenge, Brauer came in second. Despite facing discrimination for her gender and size, she remains resilient and […]
Public key cryptography revolutionized secret messaging, using two keys: one public, one private. Like magic ink, messages disappear and reappear. The UK first unearthed this concept in the 70s, later advancing by American researchers. The RSA algorithm became the foundation, creating secure internet transactions and digital signatures. But quantum computers could shatter this system, threatening […]
The practice of rubbing frostbite with snow gained popularity during the Napoleonic Wars but is not advocated by modern medicine. Rapid re-warming through soaking hands or feet in warm water is recommended by the Mayo Clinic, as rubbing can further damage tissues. In 1956, Merryman disproved the snow rubbing treatment and introduced rapid re-warming, leading […]
Netflix’s live coverage of Jake Paul’s fight with Mike Tyson was marred by buffering issues and black screens. Viewers expressed frustration over the streaming quality on social media. The problem persisted throughout the night, affecting the welterweight fight between Mario Barrios and Abel Ramos. As viewership increased, so did the streaming issues. The situation doesn’t […]
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Hackers are using a new technique called ZIP file concatenation to hide malicious payloads in compressed archives, evading security solutions. Perception Point discovered this trend when analyzing a phishing attack that tricked users with a fake shipping notice. The malware was hidden in a RAR archive and used AutoIt scripting. The attack involves creating separate […]
The Free TOWNS OS project aims to provide a copyright-free FM Towns OS for running free games and developing new applications without copyright concerns. The Tsugaru OS can run popular free games like Panic Ball 2 and VSGP without relying on files from the original Towns OS. To use it, you can boot from the […]
The author, Poul-Henning Kamp, expresses his disdain for the X86 architecture due to market power considerations rather than performance/energy ratio. Kamp purchased a Lenovo T14s G6 with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU for EUR1000 + VAT, which required patches to ARM64-specific interrupt issues on FreeBSD-current. Despite some functionality issues like the keyboard, mouse, and thermal/freq management […]
The author attended PyData Berlin 2024, where Polars was a hot topic among attendees. While Polars is known for features like lazy execution and query optimization, a unique innovation that often goes unnoticed is non-elementary group-by aggregations. The author explains group-by operations and compares elementary aggregations in both pandas and Polars. They highlight the limitations […]