2025 state tests show about half of FCPS students lack reading and math proficiency. Graduation rate hides gaps; many diplomas do not reflect core skill mastery. FCPS must enforce early proficiency, ...

Released into the wild decades ago, Florida’s giant pythons have multiplied into an unstoppable force, devouring native wildlife and collapsing fragile ecosystems. Samuel Alito says Supreme Court ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

Critics are questioning if Donald Trump’s administration possibly used chatbots to calculate reciprocal tariffs announced yesterday that Trump claimed were “individualized” tariffs placed on countries ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

Every few years or so, a development in computing results in a sea change and a need for specialized workers to take advantage of the new technology. Whether that’s COBOL in the 60s and 70s, HTML in ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) heads to the House floor on Friday in hopes of being formally reelected Speaker. While Johnson has the endorsement of President-elect Trump to remain Speaker, one ...

One of the long-standing bottlenecks for researchers and data scientists is the inherent limitation of the tools they use for numerical computation. NumPy, the go-to library for numerical operations ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new ...