A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

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 ...

The moment became a striking illustration of something my research keeps returning to: how music can carry the moral codes of ...

Abstract: Weighted vertex cover (WVC) problem, as one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems, is a general form of the classic vertex cover problem. The existing researches focused ...

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When Tomahawk shut down in 2016, it was powered by a team of six. A decade later, developer J Herskowitz has vibe-coded it back to life as Parachord with an assist from Anthropic's AI. I’ve ...

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Sienna Rose has achieved a level of breakout stardom envied by musicians everywhere. Over the last four months, she’s developed a fan base of more than 4 million monthly Spotify listeners. Her star ...

Macworld reports that iOS 26.4 beta introduces “Playlist Playground,” an AI-powered feature allowing Apple Music subscribers to create custom playlists using text prompts or song selections. The ...