Abstract: Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are deep generative latent variable models that can be used for learning the distribution of complex data. VAEs have been successfully used to learn a ...

Charles Schwab is a major financial player and manages nearly $12 trillion in total client assets and more than 4 million brokerage accounts as of November 2025. Since its merger with TD Ameritrade, ...

UBI provides regular, unconditional cash payments to individuals without work requirements. Largest UBI trial in Kenya improved medical access and business startup rates. UBI's high cost and potential ...

Martin Hensher ([email protected]) is an associate professor of health systems financing and organization in Deakin University’s Institute for Health Transformation, in Burwood, Victoria, Australia.

Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of hours into understanding how websites and online businesses work. She's shared what she's learned on blogs ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Abstract: Visual tracking is a fundamental capability for robots tasked with humans and environment interaction. However, state-of-the-art visual tracking methods are still prone to failures and are ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

From the land of Nowhere comes Jason Bohn/ He talks too much because his mind is gone/ He sports a couple really lame tattoos/ And the most used button on his alarm is "snooze." (With apologies to ...