Abstract: Convolutionally precoded polar codes known as polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes are a promising variant of polar codes for short block lengths. The precoding in PAC codes has ...
When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit's TurboTax team had a question: ...
Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...
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The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...
If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...
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Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government’s relationship with the AI company Anthropic, its leaders believed that they were still on track for a deal. The Pentagon ...
Welcome to the age of surveillance pricing – a new form of digital price gouging where Amazon and other online platforms use the massive amount of data they collect on every click, search, and ...
Blizzard offered a first look at new hero Anran in Overwatch following the Overwatch Spotlight, initially in a trailer and then during a weekend-long hero trial in which players could actually play as ...