Scientific American

The math of March Madness brackets

Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up ...
IEEE

6-DoF Pose Estimation Using an End-to-End Pipeline of Neural Network With BP-n-P

Abstract: This article presents a single-shot, end-to-end deep learning architecture for object detection and 6-DoF pose estimation using an RGB image without postprocessing. Previous studies have ...

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...
Scientific American

How to find pi in randomness all around you

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...
IEEE

Operating Time Modification by Elliptic Integration in Feedforward Control of One-Time Swing-Up Pendulum Using Finite-Time Settling Functions with Half-Odd-Integer ...

Abstract: In this study, feedforward control of the one-time swing of a 1DOF pendulum is performed using a finite-time settling function expressed by half-odd-integer trigonometric functions. The ...
The Guardian

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC

I attended the Bafta awards on Sunday. And I arrived early enough to hear the Tourette syndrome (TS) campaigner John Davidson, on whom the biographical film I Swear is based, be introduced. He stood ...
The Guardian

BBC producers say they ‘didn’t hear’ N-word slur as ‘working in a truck’, following second Baftas apology

Corporation says it is sorry that words spoken involuntarily during ceremony by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, were not edited out With N-word incident, Bafta have shot themselves in the ...
Huffington Post UK

Baftas Host Apologises After Guest With Tourette's Has N-Word Tic During Ceremony

Sinners actors Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award when Tourette's campaigner John Davidson experienced the involuntary tic. John joined the film’s cast and crew at this year’s ...
Yahoo

Tourette’s activist John Davidson shouts N-word during BAFTAs telecast while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo present

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo had the N-word shouted at them while presenting an award at the BAFTAs on Sunday. The “Sinners” ...
The Daily Beast

Trump Hit With Devastating Poll Numbers Amid Tariff Tantrum

The self-proclaimed “Tariff King” may have to rethink that title, given a series of blows the president was dealt this week. As the president threw a fit over the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down ...
ecoportal.net

Experts create cold photovoltaics for the first time in history — No sunlight required to produce this odd, inverted energy effect

You’ve always associated solar power with heat, bright sun, and hot panels. But what if some of the most exciting progress in photovoltaics isn’t about capturing more heat, but getting rid of it? It ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

No train services between Tanah Merah and Expo from Mar 14–17; Sengkang West LRT Inner Loop to be closed from Apr 19-Oct 18

SINGAPORE: Train services along the East-West Line (EWL) and Sengkang-Punggol LRT line (SPRLT) are set to be adjusted to facilitate essential upgrading works, the Land Transport Authority (LTA), SMRT ...