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The Top 500 list of supercomputers has come and gone again, and vendors have engaged in their usual round of self-congratulations and performance posting. All the talk of FLOPs can get a little ...

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The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...

For the past 99 years at Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, spectators have craned their necks to watch giant balloons and larger-than-life floats pass through the streets of New York City. But a ...

Homebuyers are finally seeing some relief in the final months of 2025. Recent back-to-back Federal Reserve rate cuts have pushed 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates down to the low-6% range, which ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed in the numeric parts. For example, 077.010 is legal, and denotes the same number as 77.10. The leading zero on the fractional part is significant ...

German developer Sinn Power has announced the completion of what it claims to be the world’s largest floating photovoltaic plant featuring vertically oriented solar panels. The company said its ...