Abstract: This paper presents MetricGrids, a novel grid-based neural representation that combines elementary metric grids in various metric spaces to approximate complex nonlinear signals. While ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

1 In late 1975, President Gerald Ford had a unique vision for making America great again. He wanted to embrace a French invention – one that Thomas Jefferson himself had championed. He wanted America ...

Sports computer rankings guru Jeff Sagarin is 77 and still trying to perfect his system for evaluating college football teams even though he knows it's impossible. If he thinks he's getting close, he ...

Last Aug. 28, at the “Ready-For-School” event in the Middle School, I overheard one SLCSD teacher say to another: “China’s technology beats ours because we haven’t embraced the metric system.” I know ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

Quality-focused Chicago roaster Metric Coffee brought a three-year project to fruition this month, opening a new roastery, headquarters and all-day bakery cafe called Milli in Avondale. Inside a ...

The United States nearly adopted the metric system in the 1790s. A French scientist was on his way with the official kilogram to convince Congress—until pirates intercepted his ship ABC suspends Jimmy ...

When: Conestoga Valley school board meeting, Sept. 8. Board members Dianna Capka and Mark Gensel were absent. What happened: The district’s elementary schools will change the way students are graded ...

This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts. Could the world ever fully ...