Assassin's Creed Mirage is a dream for stealth kings. People who loved Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell or simply the old Assassin's Creeds will have a tremendous fun in beautiful 9th century Baghdad, our recent hands-on with the game revealed. We throw coins, briefly distract a guard, dart around corners. In that game, we are a bear of a man, with arms like tree trunks as we swing the axe and make the English army tremble. Valhalla also had its moments, but in Mirage there is much more of a hand-built feel.

Algebraic geometry is essential to learning theory. In hierarchical learning machines such as layered neural networks and gaussian mixtures, the asymptotic normality does not hold, since Fisher in(cid:173) formation matrices are singular. In this paper, the rigorous asymp(cid:173) totic form of the stochastic complexity is clarified based on resolu(cid:173) tion of singularities and two different problems are studied. It is useful for model selection, but not for generalization.

In early 2018, officials at University College London were shocked to learn that meetings organized by "race scientists" and neo-Nazis, called the London Conference on Intelligence, had been held at the college the previous four years. The existence of the conference was surprising, but the choice of location was not. UCL was an epicenter of the early 20th-century eugenics movement--a precursor to Nazi "racial hygiene" programs--due to its ties to Francis Galton, the father of eugenics, and his intellectual descendants and fellow eugenicists Karl Pearson and Ronald Fisher. In response to protests over the conference, UCL announced this June that it had stripped Galton's and Pearson's names from its buildings and classrooms. After similar outcries about eugenics, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies renamed its annual Fisher Lecture, and the Society for the Study of Evolution did the same for its Fisher Prize. In science, these are the equivalents of toppling a Confederate statue and hurling it into the sea. Unlike tearing down monuments to white supremacy in the American South, purging statistics of the ghosts of its eugenicist past is not a straightforward proposition. In this version, it's as if Stonewall Jackson developed quantum physics. What we now understand as statistics comes largely from the work of Galton, Pearson, and Fisher, whose names appear in bread-and-butter terms like "Pearson correlation coefficient" and "Fisher information." In particular, the beleaguered concept of "statistical significance," for decades the measure of whether empirical research is publication-worthy, can be traced directly to the trio. Ideally, statisticians would like to divorce these tools from the lives and times of the people who created them. It would be convenient if statistics existed outside of history, but that's not the case.

An upcoming book is getting some media attention for including an unflattering characterization of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. Some original Google employees remember Brin as a "playboy" during the company's early days, as well as a manager who thought nothing of having intimate relationships with female employees, according to Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) by Adam Fisher. In addition to the salacious info, excerpts of the book published by Vanity Fair this week include a sobering reminder about what Brin and the company's other founder Larry Page, always considered their primary goal. In Fisher's book, Kevin Kelly, Wired's founding editor, told him: "When I met Page, I said, 'Larry, I don't get it. I don't see where you're going with this.

William Shatner wrote the book on horses--but does he know all the facts? We tested his talents on the inaugural episode of "Science/Fiction." Oscar Issac had the honor of being slapped by Carrie Fisher in'The Last Jedi' Guy freaks out after setting a new Plinko record on'The Price is Right'

A selection of quotes from Carrie Fisher, the Star Wars actress, novelist and screenwriter, who has died aged 60. "When I got the part of a princess in this goofy little science-fiction film, I thought: it'll be fun to do. I'm 19! Who doesn't want to have fun at 19? "I'll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. "But then Star Wars, this goofy, little three-month hang-out with robots did something unexpected. "It exploded across the firmament of pop culture, taking all of us along with it. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day.

For actress/singer/director Connie Stevens, it's always been about "me and the girls" -- her actress daughters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher from her short-lived marriage to singer Eddie Fisher. "They've always been the light in my eye," said Stevens, 78. "And I have found the older I get, that's really what counts anyway." And her daughters, who were just toddlers when she divorced Fisher in 1969, went with her when she performed in Las Vegas or made a movie -- Eddie Fisher, who battled substance abuse for years, wasn't part of their lives when they were growing up. And it wasn't too long before the Fisher girls would join their mom on stage.

Mason Halton, 10, put together a drone during Drone Camp on Tuesday, June 14, 2016. INDIANAPOLIS -- Ten-year-old Jade Bacon probably knows more about drones than most people do. She knows what stabilizers and a gimbal do and can point them out. She can tell you to what altitude someone can legally fly a drone (500 feet, if you didn't know), and where you can't fly drones (stay away from prisons and airports). Most of her knowledge about drones came from attending a two-day drone camp in Fishers, Ind., that taught kids about drones, then let them fly.

Tambe's systems provided measurable outcomes that prove A.I. can be more efficient in managing patrol schedules than a lone human decision-maker. After LAX security officials implemented Tambe's first software system, called ARMOR, they saw an immediate, five-fold increase in the seizure of weapons, drugs and more. In 2013, a study by Los Angeles Metro found a 66 percent increase in the number of fare jumpers on L.A.'s subways. ARMOR was even adapted for the U.S. Coast Guard to catch illegal fishers in the Gulf of Mexico. ARMOR-FISH, tested in 2014, located illegal activities, though funding for the project has since stalled.

By discussing several examples, the theory of generalized functional models is shown to be very natural for modeling some situations of reasoning under uncertainty. A generalized functional model is a pair (f, P) where f is a function describing the interactions between a parameter variable, an observation variable and a random source, and P is a probability distribution for the random source. Unlike traditional functional models, generalized functional models do not require that there is only one value of the parameter variable that is compatible with an observation and a realization of the random source. As a consequence, the results of the analysis of a generalized functional model are not expressed in terms of probability distributions but rather by support and plausibility functions. The analysis of a generalized functional model is very logical and is inspired from ideas already put forward by R.A. Fisher in his theory of fiducial probability.