Numbers, please! Shortest month of the year – How February came to have 28 days
The modern calendar has Roman Catholic roots. As the sun does not adhere exactly to the earthly calendar, leap days are ...
The Week11d
Wheth, Atmami, Omnivistatude: New words for old feelings
At a recent literary festival in Pune, its curator, the author Manjiri Prabhu, challenged me to prove my love of words by ...
Netflix, Max and Prime Video Negotiate With French Film Guilds for Earlier Access to New Releases After Disney+ Deal
Netflix, Max and Prime Video are negotiating with French guilds to access theatrical movies at an earlier stage and update ...
French policeman ordered to pay 1,000 euros for insulting woman who reported sexual assault
A French police officer has been ordered to pay 1,000 euros, or approximately $1,000 after he described a woman who filed a sexual assault complaint as a "whore", a source close to the case said on ...
Scientific American27d
These Prime Numbers Are So Memorable That People Hunt for Them
One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...
French Prime Minister survives no-confidence votes on 2025 budget
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Wednesday survived two no-confidence votes in parliament, paving the way for the ...
Al Jazeera English7d
From street names to textbooks, Senegal is rewriting French colonial memory
In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury the evidence and claimed 35 people were killed. However, scholars ...
Wired25d
There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes—numbers that are only divisible by ...
Wall Street Journal7d
A Budget for French Decline
Photo: Image: Francois Lenoir/Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron’s era of pro-growth reform is over. That’s the signal from the new 2025 budget, and Mr. Macron is the main architect of ...
ahajournals.org1d
Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Women With a History of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and are associated with acute cardiac events in the peripartum period, as well as ...
Visual Studio Magazine29d
Gradient Boosting Regression Using C#
The numTrees parameter specifies the number of decision tree regressors for the ensemble ... gradient boosting regression with mixed categorical and numeric data, by using ordinal encoding on the ...
CBC.ca29d
Some Paris Olympic athletes ask for medals to be replaced after quickly deteriorating
The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained that they have already deteriorated ...