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unusual facts about Optimal, Inc.


Michael Walrath

WGI Group has invested in more than 13 companies since 2007, including Taboola, Optimal, Inc. and Yext.


Additive model

"Estimating Optimal Transformations for Multiple Regression and Correlation", Journal of the American Statistical Association 80:580–598.

Cache algorithms

This optimal result is referred to as Bélády's optimal algorithm or the clairvoyant algorithm.

Castle-class patrol vessel

The Castle class was designed by David K. Brown and was intended as a series of six offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy, designed in response to criticism of the previous Island-class for insufficient speed, non-optimal sea keeping and lack of a flight deck for rescue helicopters.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

Circle packing

Axel Thue provided the first proof that this was optimal in 1890, showing that the hexagonal lattice is the densest of all possible circle packings, both regular and irregular.

Congenital hyperinsulinism

The relative rarity of this condition and the difficulty of both diagnosis and treatment has resulted in only a few centers around the world developing the expertise to achieve optimal surgical outcomes for these infants: the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, as well as centers in Paris and Israel.

Continuum concept

The continuum concept is an idea, coined by Jean Liedloff in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, that human beings have an innate set of expectations that our evolutionary process has designed us to meet (which Liedloff calls the continuum) in order to achieve optimal physical, mental, and emotional development and adaptability.

Donald Andrews

Andrews, Donald W. K. & Ploberger, Werner, "Optimal Tests When a Nuisance Parameter Is Present Only Under the Alternative".

Endre Szemerédi

With Ajtai and Komlós he proved the ct2/log t upper bound for the Ramsey number R(3,t), and constructed a sorting network of optimal depth.

Flourish

Flourishing in positive psychology, is living in an optimal range of human functioning.

Frank Natterer

sampling theorems (optimal resolution with minimal number of measurements) in tomography

Herzl Shafir

Shafir Committee - appointed by the Chief of Staff Ehud Barak on 1992, to examine the optimal utilization of military personnel and recommend ways to reduce the active reserve duty days and shortening of compulsory service in the future.

I. Michael Ross

Together with F. Fahroo, W. Kang and Q. Gong, Ross proved a series of results on the convergence of pseudospectral discretizations of optimal control problems.

James Mirrlees

Among other results, they demonstrated the principles of "moral hazard" and "optimal income taxation" discussed in the books of William Vickrey.

Jarque–Bera test

Around 1979, Anil Bera and Carlos Jarque while working on their dissertations on regression analysis, have applied the Lagrange multiplier principle to the Pearson family of distributions to test the normality of unobserved regression residuals and found that the JB test was asymptotically optimal (although the sample size needed to “reach” the asymptotic level was quite large).

Lambert W function

The Lambert W function has been recently shown to be the optimal solution for the required magnetic field of a Zeeman slower.

Leeway

The Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) and the Norwegian SAR model compute the net trajectory of search objects and provide a probability density area based upon Monte Carlo methods.

Leonidas J. Guibas

The research contributions he is known for include finger trees, red-black trees, fractional cascading, the Guibas–Stolfi algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, an optimal data structure for point location, the quad-edge data structure for representing planar subdivisions, Metropolis light transport, and kinetic data structures for keeping track of objects in motion.

Magnesium in biology

Magnesium orotate may be used as adjuvant therapy in patients on optimal treatment for severe congestive heart failure, increasing survival rate and improving clinical symptoms and patient's quality of life.

Marketing strategy

Marketing strategy is defined by David Aaker as a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its resources on the optimal opportunities with the goals of increasing sales and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage.

Michael Ross

I. Michael Ross, American innovator and founder of pseudospectral optimal control theory

Optimal tax

Arnold Harberger is another economist who made strong headway in the area of optimal taxation and whose theory has become a commonly used one for policy makers in the area of corporation income tax.

Joel Slemrod in his paper "Optimal Taxation and Optimal Tax System," argues that optimal tax theory, as it stood when Slemrod wrote this paper, was an insufficient guide to determine tax policies because policy makers had yet to find a way to implement a tax system that enticed individuals to work at their optimal level.

Orwell comma

It is so named because the temperament eliminating this comma, Orwell temperament, has an optimal generator very close to 19 steps out of 84-equal temperament; this pattern of 19/84 steps is similar to the title of Orwell's novel 1984.

Pot odds

Sklansky's strategy is an equilibrium strategy in the sense that it is optimal against someone playing an optimal strategy against it.

Quine–McCluskey algorithm

Functions with a large number of variables have to be minimized with potentially non-optimal heuristic methods, of which the Espresso heuristic logic minimizer is the de facto standard.

Separation theorem

Mutual fund separation theorem (portfolio theory) states that, under certain conditions, any investor's optimal portfolio can be constructed by holding each of certain mutual funds in appropriate ratios, where the number of mutual funds is smaller than the number of individual assets in the portfolio.

Structural alignment

The optimal "threading" of a protein sequence onto a known structure and the production of an optimal multiple sequence alignment have been shown to be NP-complete.

Theory of the second best

Canadian economist Richard Lipsey and Australian economist Kelvin Lancaster showed in a 1956 paper that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution involves changing other variables away from the ones that are usually assumed to be optimal.

Universal coding

Universal source coding, a data compression method that asymptotically approaches the data compression ratio of the optimal data compression method, e.g., LZ77 and LZ78

Václav Chvátal

he studied a weighted version of the set cover problem, and proved that a greedy algorithm provides good approximations to the optimal solution, generalizing previous unweighted results by David S. Johnson (J. Comp. Sys. Sci. 1974) and László Lovász (Discrete Math. 1975).

Vendor Neutral Archive

Whilst such systems all have standard interfaces (DICOM and IHE) for ingestion and distribution of images over the network and on physical media (like CD), typically the workflow and optimal performance for display are achieved using proprietary software and protocols.

Video tracking

Kalman filter: an optimal recursive Bayesian filter for linear functions subjected to Gaussian noise.

Volcano plot

Sabatier principle - a concept in chemical catalysis that relates the optimal concentrations of catalysts and substrates

Werner Ploberger

#Optimal Tests When a Nuisance Parametere is Present Only Under the Alternative (with Donald Andrews), Econometrica, Vol.

Zoetrope

In order to test the initial concept of the film, Zwart invited Academy-Award winning Ex-Pixar Animation Studios Scientist David DiFrancesco, to apply his science and math skills to determine the positioning, optimal speeds, shutter angle and camera specifications.


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