Estimating π with “fake circles” using Python. This short shows how to simulate the geometry, calculate the approximation step by step, and see how accuracy improves as the model gets refined. #Python ...

These open-source MMM tools solve different measurement problems, from budget optimization to forecasting and preprocessing.

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and ...

Terminally ill New Yorkers deserve the right to make their own end-of-life decisions, with appropriate protections in place. Gov. Kathy Hochul says her decision to support medical aid in dying in New ...

“Federal mortgage agency loan programs (FHA, RHS, VA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac) can also help. These programs fund 65% of all new mortgages (Page 8, Urban Institute Mortgage Chartbook). But, ...

Journal Editorial Report: Obama pushes California’s Prop 50 ahead of election day. With most of Washington shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled employees to ensure that one statistic was ...

The provision for income taxes on an income statement is the amount of income taxes a company estimates it will pay in a given year. The company's final tax bill may be slightly more or less than the ...

The National Women’s Soccer League has been quietly without a policy concerning the gender eligibility of its players for over three years. The league may have hoped its silence over this lack of ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

A U.S. Marshal and an illegal immigrant were both shot Tuesday in Los Angeles during an immigration enforcement operation, Fox News has learned. Federal agents surrounded and boxed in someone in a ...

This is my fifth year serving as a university president. Two aspects of the role are constant: the calls for free speech and expression, and the cries to sanction those who freely express their views.