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Lesson 20: Calculate rod’s moment of inertia using Python

In Python Physics Lesson 20, learn how to calculate a rod’s moment of inertia using Python! This tutorial breaks down the physics concepts, formulas, and step-by-step Python coding techniques to ...
Dot Physics on MSN

Creating a Python simulation of a tipping stick

Learn how to create a Python simulation of a tipping stick! In this video, we guide you step by step through coding a physics-based simulation that models tipping motion, friction, and torque. Perfect ...
IEEE

Bayesian Neural Networks via MCMC: A Python-Based Tutorial

Abstract: Bayesian inference provides a methodology for parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification in machine learning and deep learning methods. Variational inference and Markov Chain ...
Wall Street Journal

This Office Building Now Has a Videogame on Its Lobby Ceiling

Game on. This week an artist turned the lobby ceiling of a New York skyscraper into a gigantic version of the videogame Pong that anyone can play. Walk into One Liberty Plaza in the city’s Financial ...
The New York Times

The scientific case for ping-pong: Why athletes — and you — should play more table tennis

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...
Engadget

Sharpa's ping-pong playing, blackjack dealing humanoid is working overtime at CES 2026

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.
The New York Times

How a Travel Writer Became Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Nemesis

For Pico Iyer, making his acting debut in the hit movie “Marty Supreme” was the latest journey in a life full of unexpected voyages. By Pico Iyer The author’s TED Talk “What Ping-Pong Taught Me About ...
NPR

Timothée Chalamet brings a lot to the table in 'Marty Supreme'

Last year, while accepting a Screen Actors Guild award for A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet told the audience, "I want to be one of the greats; I'm inspired by the greats." Many criticized him ...
Los Angeles Times

Is Timothée Chalamet as good at pingpong as his character in ‘Marty Supreme’?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. First clue that someone is serious about pingpong: They call it table tennis. Second clue: They bring their own ...
The Hollywood Reporter

From Actor to Athlete: Inside Timothée Chalamet’s Table Tennis Training for ‘Marty Supreme’

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...
NPR

The real ping pong champion — and hustler — who inspired 'Marty Supreme'

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...
Slate

What’s Fact and Fiction in Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet wouldn’t be everyone’s first thought when it comes to playing a character like Midnight Cowboy’s Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a fast-talking New York hustler always on the run from ...