From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

As people celebrate Pi Day this March 14, the mathematical constant continues to be part of everyday life for scientists and ...

Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...
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Make Python scripts smarter with regex: 5 practical RE examples

If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...
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Confront Them With the Numbers: This Former Physicist’s Path to Investigative Data Journalism

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.
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Pulse Pattern Construction for Time-Hopping Pseudolites With the Generated Congruence Codes

Abstract: The pulse patterns constructed with existing methods don’t perform well in hit property or in pattern number. Aimed at this problem, a new method to construct pulse patterns for multiple ...