‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” ...

As a front-end developer, I meet a lot of people who write JavaScript. The majority of them do little more than include jQuery and a few plug-ins in order to add a fancy lightbox effect or an image ...

This paper provides a unified and comprehensive approach for deriving expressions for higher-order cumulants of random vectors. The approach is based on expanding the characteristic functions and ...