Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, ...

Jack Clark, Anthropic's head of policy, says he spends his days thinking about AI guardrails. At home, he says he's building guardrails, too — for his own kids. During an interview with "The Ezra ...

What Claude does is eye-opening. One thing he has taught me is that the future belongs to the APIs and CLIs. It’s tough out here for a dev/tech writer. Back in the before days (that is, about two ...

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Commentary: With new US ownership, the magic of TikTok's algorithm appears to have run out. And so has my interest. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Image / Nano Banana Pro One of the biggest constraints currently facing AI builders who want to deploy agents in service of their individual or enterprise ...

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The beta feature, available Monday as a research preview, builds on Anthropic’s ...