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The dice roll problem: How probability shapes efficient communication

When Alice and Bob need to transmit dice rolls across a noisy wire, they discover that optimal communication isn't about treating all messages equally, but about assigning shorter signals to more ...

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 ...
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A Tutorial on Solving Transcendental Equations in Solar Cell Models Through the Chebyshev Method

Abstract: This paper presents a detailed tutorial on the numerical simulation of photovoltaic (PV) cells using single-, two-, and three-diode equivalent circuit models. These models capture ...
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Tutorial - Promo for solving a a multi step equation with a variable on both sides

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Chinese scientists push limits of 300-year-old math problem in sphere packing

Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) used an artificial intelligence system called Packing Star to solve a 300-year-old maths problem ...