Abstract: The Ball-Pivoting Algorithm (BPA) is a crucial technique for 3D surface reconstruction from point clouds, which relies heavily on selecting an appropriate ball radius. The effectiveness of ...

The term ‘Pivot’ in business parlance was popularised by Eric Reis in his ‘Lean Startup’ methodology. In conceptual terms a pivot is a structured course correction based on validated learning and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new pivot rule of the simplex algorithm. The simplex algorithm first presented by George B. Dantzig, is a widely used method for solving a linear ...

In 2025, professionals like MC Jimmie Kajim and Agnes Nonsizi turned side hustles into thriving ventures, showing leaving the 9-to-5 can be smart, not reckless. In 2025, quitting stopped being a ...

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