A new method to decode how DNA 'switches' control gene activity

DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning ...
IEEE

Hardware-Efficient Unified Approximation for Implementing Diverse Smooth Activation Functions

Abstract: Smooth activation functions such as Swish, GELU, and Tanhexp have emerged as effective alternatives to ReLU, alleviating issues such as dying ReLU and gradient vanishing while improving ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows California to use congressional map benefitting Democrats

The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a ...
IEEE

A Sub-0.8-pJ/bit Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND

Abstract: Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) has enabled the practical implementation of maximum likelihood (ML) or near-ML decoding, shifting the paradigm of code-specific decoder design ...