Pi

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For geeks, there are several great holidays on the calendar. There is of course Mole Day (10/23) to commemorate Avogadro's number, which is huge (on the order of 1023) and hugely important in physics. There's e Day (2/7) for Euler's ubiquitous number (e = 2.718…). But the best is Pi Day, held on March 14 because the infinitely long decimal approximation of pi begins with 3.14. There's so much to say about pi—I've been writing Pi Day posts for 14 years. (Here's a partial list).What is pi (or as the Greeks would say, π)? By…

Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends “Find me a few books on mindfulness and meditation.” I posed the question to ChatGPT, and it put a list of 16 books with the authors’ names divided across the two categories I described. It was a quick, albeit somewhat overwhelming, way to process the flood of information. There’s nothing wrong with being forthright. But sometimes, we need an additional nugget of knowledge to guide us. After all, we often have questions we never ask but realize we always wanted it when someone dishes…

When AI researcher Sasha Luccioni went to business conferences and speaking events last year, she would field basic questions like: “What is artificial intelligence?” Now, she said, the people she meets are not only familiar with AI, they're worried about whether it will “take over the world.” What changed, she said, was ChatGPT. On Nov. 30 last year, the public gained access to OpenAI's chatbot, which could create expansive — though not always reliable — written responses to simple prompts from users. It fundamentally…

Chatbots aren't just useful for writing essays and emails. Those designed to show empathy and retain memories about their users are already acting as personal guides. A man who recently tried using a chatbot called Pi realized it could help him give up smoking if he went to it each time he had a craving. Whenever he did, it would remind him of all the reasons why quitting was a good idea, including being around in the future for his child.Pi's creator is a Silicon Valley startup called Inflection, which raised a…

Here’s a famous teaser that I don’t really like much: What number comes next in the sequence 8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7,…? It’s not so obvious. It becomes a little easier when we write the sequence in words: eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, …. Spot it now? The answer is 6, because the digits are given in alphabetical order (and six comes next). It’s a fine trick, but it preys on the forgivable assumption that a pattern in a sequence of numbers will have something to do with numbers. I prefer when the parameters of a puzzle are…

It was a Wednesday morning, I’m burned up in midweek blues, and there was a subtle drumming building to a four-on-the-floor on my temples. I spotted a small press release for a new AI chatbot, just one of so many that have scrolled across my screen since the advent of ChatGPT a little over half a year ago. The first thing the new AI chatbot called Pi asked me was “How are you doing?”Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechI answered it simply: “I feel like butter scraped over too much bread.”“Hahaha!” the chatbot pretends…

The New York Times has a new web game out this week that, depending on how well you did in high school algebra, may or may not be your new favorite thing. Lower Drought Conditions In California | Extreme EarthDigits, which the paper launched Monday, is a math-based puzzle game that—if we’re just being honest—is basically a knock-off of the Times’ other much beloved puzzle game, Wordle, except that it involves numbers instead of letters. “Digits is a departure from the language-based fare that The Times’s puzzle lovers…