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4 Ways to Bring Logic Puzzles Into Your Math Class

Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

$90K a year doesn't cover as much as it used to. Here are 8 US cities where you can live comfortably on this income

Once upon a time a $90,000 income was good money. These days, it doesn’t go far in many major American cities after ...

This 71-year-old woman kept feeding money into crypto ATM at fraudsters' request, even as police told her it was a scam

A convenience store clerk in Westlake, Ohio, knew something was up when he saw an older woman depositing thousands of dollars ...
IEEE

Simplified Viterbi-Like Successive-Cancellation Decoding Algorithm for Polar Codes

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 ...
IEEE

A Weakly-Hybrid Decoding Algorithm for Staircase Codes via Multi-Level Bit Marking

Abstract: Reducing the complexity of soft-decision (SD) decoding algorithm or improving the performance of hard-decision (HD) decoding algorithm becomes an emerging ...