The Method of Moments Estimator for Gaussian Mixture Models

Audio Processing is one of the most important application domains of digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning. Modeling acoustic ...
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CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages

Separately, a CenturyLink customer named David Stromberg in Bellevue, Washington, told us that his phone service had been out since ...
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AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them

The last phase of the setup involved swiping left and right on stock images of people’s faces until the app, ...
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The Download: DOGE’s influences, and rescuing federal data from deletion

1 The Trump administration is slashing billions in biomedical research funding The change, effective immediately, is sending shockwaves through academia. Expect ...
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Teenage Engineering OP-XY review: a fun, powerful, and expensive instrument

Teenage Engineering is a design firm as much as it is a musical instrument company. Its devices rarely look or ...
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Military Robot Deployed as Nightclub DJ

“We are not trying to apologize for the strength of robots.” Robot Rock Everyone knows San Francisco has been captured ...
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Best Puffer Jackets (2025): Patagonia, Arc’teryx, REI

The temptation with down jackets is get the warmest one you can. If you’re spending the winter in northern Wisconsin ...
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5 ways AI can help with your taxes – and 10 major mistakes to avoid

ZDNET In a recent test of ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature, the AI was asked to identify 20 jobs that OpenAI’s ...
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Scientists Find ‘Mirror Life’ Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these ...
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