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 ...

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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15 best National Pi Day deals 2026: Where to find $3.14 pizza

Happy National Pi Day to all who celebrate!

Verifiable AI startup Axiom raises $200M to prove AI-generated code is safe to use

Axiom Quant Inc. said today it’s ready to step up to the plate and make sure that the tsunami of artificial intelligence-generated code is safe, secure and accurate after raising $200 million in a ...

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
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Decoding Quantum LDPC Codes Using Graph Neural Networks

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel decoding method for Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (QLDPC) codes based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Similar to the Belief Propagation (BP)-based QLDPC ...