the-decoder

A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"

Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class. His conclusion: AI turned an already existing culture of dishonesty at the ...
theregister

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never. Compared to training ...
IEEE

Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation Revisited: A Mismatched Decoding Perspective

Abstract: We revisit the information-theoretic analysis of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) by modeling the BICM decoder as a mismatched decoder. The mismatched decoding model is well defined ...
AMBCrypto

Solana ETF inflows hit 2% of SOL’s market cap, beating Bitcoin’s record

U.S. Spot Solana ETFs are close to hitting $1 billion in inflows, or 2% of their market cap, having debuted last October. That’s only 18 weeks taken to climb to its current levels. In contrast, Brian ...
the-decoder

Perplexity open-sources embedding models that match Google and Alibaba at a fraction of the memory cost

AI search engine Perplexity is introducing two new text embedding models designed to match or beat Google's and Alibaba's offerings at a fraction of the usual memory cost. Both models are open source.
IEEE

Information Storage Bit-Flipping Decoder for LDPC Codes

Abstract: Tabu-list random-penalty gradient descent bit-flipping (TRGDBF) decoder is the state-of-the-art hard-decision low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder in terms of error-correction performance ...
The New York Times

Anonymous Bidder Pays Nearly $1 Million for Secret to Decode C.I.A. Sculpture

The creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian. By John Schwartz John ...
Seattle Times

Anonymous bidder pays nearly $1 million for secret to decode CIA sculpture

A price has been set for one of the biggest secrets kept by the United States’ top spy agency: $962,500. That was the price reached at a Thursday auction of the solution to the last bit of the ...
University of Vermont

Fetch, decode, execute (repeat!)

At its core, the operation of every computer is governed by process known as the fetch–decode–execute cycle, sometimes simply called the instruction cycle. Regardless of the complexity of modern ...
theregister

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts has stepped in with ...
The Verge

Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress

The head of the WordPress project on the WP Engine lawsuit, Automattic turning 20, and what’s next for the web. The head of the WordPress project on the WP Engine lawsuit, Automattic turning 20, and ...