Yesterday, I wrote about a 2-year-old open-source hardware ESP32-based DAB+ receiver project, but it turns out there's also a ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Abstract: The performance of a code under the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoder highly depends on the weight enumerating function (WEF). However, how to compute efficiently the WEF of a polar code or a ...

Abstract: Sensing is one of the most fundamental tasks for the monitoring, forecasting, and control of complex, spatio-temporal systems. In many applications, a limited number of sensors are mobile ...

In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters. New episodes come out every two weeks.