Abstract: This paper addresses the well-known local maximum problem of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm in blind inter-symbol interference (ISI) channel estimation. This problem primarily ...

This Pew Research Center report on sources of national pride uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in 25 countries. For non-U.S. data, this analysis draws on nationally ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable has more than tripled its valuation in just five months. Stockholm-based Lovable on Thursday said it had raised $330 million in a Series B funding round that was ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, announced a variety of new tools for ...

After a mathematics win in July, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has now earned a gold-medal level performance in competitive coding. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the “oldest, ...

JSON Prompting is a technique for structuring instructions to AI models using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, making prompts clear, explicit, and machine-readable. Unlike traditional ...