It’s a counterintuitive result that you might need to add noise to an input signal to get the full benefits from oversampling in analog to digital conversion. [Paul Allen] steps us through a simple ...

It turns out the rapid growth of AI has a massive downside: namely, spiraling power consumption, strained infrastructure and runaway environmental damage. It’s clear the status quo won’t cut it ...

The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of parameters at four bytes each, they pose a ...

It is not surprising that the world around us is getting more and more digitized. One reason might be that manipulation, storage, and usage of data in digital form is more convenient and easier than ...

The difference between an analog wave and its digital representation. Also known as "quantization noise." See quantization. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...