The Debrief

A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature

In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...
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Indian mathematician's genius formula from a century ago might explain the dark secrets of black holes

It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave ...
IEEE

A Semi-Analytic Algorithm to Estimate Clusters With Loops in Percolation on Real Networks

Abstract: Estimating the percolating cluster fraction is central to many percolation models. For real networks, the total size of clusters with loops can be considered a plausible metric for this ...
MIT Technology Review

Algorithms are everywhere

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...
GitHub

Programming Assignment 1_ Percolation.htm

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THE WEEK

How content creators cope with discriminatory algorithms

The threat of bias in the latest wave of generative artificial intelligence may be in the spotlight lately, but social media algorithms already have discrimination problems. Some creators from ...
Search Engine Land

How the YouTube algorithm works: What marketers need to know

This guide will help you get the most out of YouTube, understand the platform's algorithm and gain visibility for your best videos. YouTube has the second-highest number of active users making it the ...
GitHub

Princeton-Data-Structures-and-Algorithms/percolation.txt

See the Assessment Guide for information on how to interpret this report. Want to receive personalized feedback on this submission? You can pay to have a teaching assistant read and provide ...
Frontiers

Re-conceptualizing the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to Predict Subsurface Water Flow Through Macroporous Soils

1 Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada 2 Institut de Recherche et de Développement en Agroenvironnement, Québec, QC, Canada ...
MIT Technology Review

What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...