We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...

Lower-precision floating-point arithmetic is becoming more often used in recently growing hardware, moving beyond the usual IEEE 64-bit double-precision and 32-bit single-precision formats. Today, ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

Large language models by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get a more ...

The intersection of technology and social justice has become increasingly prominent, especially in environmental justice. As communities around the world face the growing impacts of climate change and ...

It’s hard to miss how much attention AI image generators alone have attracted in recent months. With good reason, because they demonstrate the progress of deep learning models in a vivid and playful ...

PyXHDL born for developers who are not really in love with any of the HDL languages and instead appreciate the simplicity and flexibility of using Python for their workflows. PyXHDL allows to write ...

Digital clinical measures based on data collected by wearable devices have seen rapid growth in both clinical trials and healthcare. The widely-used measures based on wearables are epoch-based ...

Array programming provides a powerful, compact and expressive syntax for accessing, manipulating and operating on data in vectors, matrices and higher-dimensional arrays. NumPy is the primary array ...

I recently had a need to produce visualizations (plots) of scientific data from data sets (CSV files) produced by running a statistical application. Since Tableau is the market leader in visualization ...