A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Discover how casino loyalty programs really work, how player tracking algorithms calculate your ADT and theoretical value, and why comps aren’t based on losses.

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PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...

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