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The Justice Department is investigating whether the Washington, DC police department manipulated crime statistics to make the district seem more safe than it actually is. “We’re of course looking into ...

Abstract: The paper describes a mobile software system that recognizes function graphs using computer vision and machine learning methods, their analysis and prediction using several intelligent ...

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School of Engineering, Institute of Computer Science, Intelligent Information Systems Research Group, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland Many different methods for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a ...