There is indeed a vast literature on the design and analysis of decision tree algorithms that aim at optimizing these parameters. This paper contributes to this important line of research: we propose ...

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Mr. Currell was a deputy undersecretary and senior adviser at the Department of Education from 2018 to 2021. He is a trustee of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. This week, about 200,000 ...

1536 ET – Gold and silver futures strengthened after the Federal Reserve trimmed rates by a quarter-point. The central back signals that no additional cuts may be coming. This could make safe-haven ...

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

Source: mariya_m / Pixabay The most profound reading experience I've had was the book Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say that three times fast). It was taught in a Brown University psychology intro ...

The New York Jets' quarterback carousel continues to spin, dizzying fans and players more than ever in 2025. They made a $40 million investment in Justin Fields during the offseason, signing the ...

The key word to the idea of NFL teams having unofficial depth charts is the fact that they're unofficial. But they're also something, and on Tuesday, there was plenty of intrigue as the Cleveland ...

The Federal Reserve's rate decision today is shaping up to be its most consequential of the year, with most economists predicting the first cut of 2025. The real suspense is over how deep the ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...