WA superintendent says K-12 schools need more math — and funding

In his annual state of education address, Chris Reykdal called for tax reform, more funding, and better math education for ...
San Francisco Examiner

SF supes ready to grill PG&E, Waymo after outages

San Francisco supervisors returned from a holiday break Tuesday to a plate of matters including weighty calls for hearings ...
The Purdue Exponent

Shiffrin trails Rast after Kranjska Gora slalom first run

US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin clocked the second-fastest time behind Swiss Camille Rast in the first run of the World Cup ...
The Jewish Exponent

Linda and Eric Newman: Son’s Autism Propels Couple’s Volunteer Work in Cherry Hill

Linda and Eric Newman say their son, Max, is the driving force behind their volunteer work and advocacy for people with disabilities. Max is the eldest of the couple’s two sons and he has level 2 ...
IEEE

A Compute-in-Memory Annealing Processor With Interaction Coefficient Reuse and Sparse Energy Computation for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Since combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are a class of non-deterministic polynomial-time (NP)-hard problems, it is impracticable to solve them in brute-force searches, which results in high ...
IEEE

Overcoming the Spectral Bias Problem of Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Solving the Frequency-Domain Acoustic Wave Equation

Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently been utilized to tackle wave equation-based forward and inverse problems. However, they encounter challenges in accurately predicting ...
The Jewish Exponent

Local Philanthropist Urges Jewish Teens to Consider College in Israel

Around midlife, David Magerman’s existential crisis encouraged him to engage in Torah study for the first time. Shortly thereafter, he began donating tens of millions of dollars to build Kohelet ...