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Phones Razor-Thin Smartphone Trade-Offs: Are We Sacrificing Functionality for Form? The last time ultra-thin smartphones had a wild run was around 2014-2016, when we saw the likes of vivo X5Max leading the race at just 4.75mm thick. Then came the iPhone 6 at 6.9mm and iPhone 6 Plus at 7.1mm. These phones were admired for their slim design, but were largely deemed poor in functionality. […]

Franklin Okeke 4 weeks

Cybersecurity 9 Security Functions Your Organization Should Automate The statistic is staggering: A cyberattack happens every 39 seconds on average. Although every company wants to ensure its systems and data are secure, the massive number of attacks means that security team members can’t do it on their own. To protect systems from cyber threats and cyberattacks, organizations need to automate as many security […]

Linda Rosencrance 2 years

Software Development What’s the difference between a function and a functor? In computer programming, a function is a series of instructions and computational steps provided to carry out a certain task. These instruction constitute a unit which can be used in any part of the program where that task needs to be performed. (Read Straight From the Programming Experts: What Functional Programming Language is Best to […]

Claudio Buttice 5 years

Tech 101 How This Museum Keeps the Oldest Functioning Computer Running Technology evolves fast. Most of us replace our computers every 3-7 years. Seeing old computers humming along decades after they were invented? Never happens. Unless, of course, you visit The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, England, where antique computers are par for the course. Here, some of the oldest functioning computers in the world […]

Techopedia Staff 3 years

Software Development Linear Compatibility Functions What Does Linear Compatibility Functions Mean? Linear compatibility functions can be part of structured prediction work, where a machine learning program (or similar technology) attempts to solve for an identity in a classification problem by examining training inputs. This sort of construct makes sense within the general framework of the neural network model that is […]

Margaret Rouse 6 years

Machine Learning Function Approximation What Does Function Approximation Mean? Function approximation is the study of selecting functions in a class that match target functions. It’s a process that is useful in applied mathematics and computer science. Function approximation is often related to a Markov decision process (MDP) which consists of an agent and various states. Techopedia Explains Function Approximation […]

Margaret Rouse 6 years

Software Development Functional Programming Languages: Past, Present and Future Clojure, Elixir, Elm, F#, Haskell, Idris and Scala are all names you are likely to see among recommendations for functional programming languages worth learning. These are the languages in use today and which may well be in use in years to come. A language like haskell features the most longevity, but even more recent ones […]

Ariella Brown 6 years

Software Development Parallel Functional Programming What Does Parallel Functional Programming Mean? Parallel functional programming refers to a specific philosophy of computer science that uses functional programming in conjunction with parallelism to work with declarative programming in specific ways. By utilizing functional programming this way, developer teams are able to introduce specific operations on interdependent tasks and transformational systems based on […]

Margaret Rouse 6 years

Machine Learning Radial Basis Function Network What Does Radial Basis Function Network Mean? A radial basis function network is a type of supervised artificial neural network that uses supervised machine learning (ML) to function as a nonlinear classifier. Nonlinear classifiers use sophisticated functions to go further in analysis than simple linear classifiers that work on lower-dimensional vectors. A radial basis function […]

Margaret Rouse 7 years

Emerging Technology Activation Function What Does Activation Function Mean? An activation function is the function in an artificial neuron that delivers an output based on inputs. Activation functions in artificial neurons are an important part of the role that the artificial neurons play in modern artificial neural networks. Techopedia Explains Activation Function One way to understand the activation function […]

Margaret Rouse 7 years