Mini Batch Gradient Descent is an algorithm that helps to speed up learning while dealing with a large dataset. Instead of updating the weight parameters after assessing the entire dataset, Mini Batch ...

U.S. home price growth stayed weak in October, with the Case-Shiller national index up 1.4% year over year. High mortgage rates continue to strain affordability. Regional gaps widened, with gains in ...

There’s no doubt about it: Housing market softening across the Sunbelt—the epicenter of U.S. homebuilding—has caused homebuilders to lose pricing power over the past year. Amid the additional margin ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...

Valve will not say what the Steam Machine's price is just yet, and in this information vacuum, people are offering all kinds of different theories and guesses as to what the six-inch cube-like system ...

A former Xbox executive has called on Valve to allow third-parties to use SteamOS to make their own Steam Machines, amid concern over the price of the next-gen living room PC. Now, Mike Ybarra, former ...

One of the biggest unknowns about Valve's Steam Machine is how much the cute little six-inch cube will cost. Plenty of people have offered their thoughts about where the price may land, and now Linus ...

It might be small, but Valve's Steam Machine carries with it the very real possibility of shaking up the console gaming landscape. The cube has the specs, form-factor, and library to stand toe-to-toe ...

Abstract: Distributed gradient descent algorithms have come to the fore in modern machine learning, especially in parallelizing the handling of large datasets that are distributed across several ...