With phones banned, some students realise they don’t remember how to read analog clocks in school

Some New York City schools banned phones to improve focus, but the move revealed a new issue. Many students have forgotten ...
Microsoft

RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation

When this paper was published in 2014, a large amount of research was focusing on specialization as a means to deliver energy efficiency. In this piece of work, we were searching for an alternative ...
Hackaday

Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock

We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train ...
IEEE

Multiple-Error-Correcting Codes for Analog Computing on Resistive Crossbars

Abstract: Error-correcting codes over the real field are studied which can locate outlying computational errors when performing approximate computing of real vector–matrix multiplication on resistive ...
IEEE

AnaSizeCoder: Code Generator for Analog Integrated Circuit Sizing Automation via Large Language Model

Abstract: This study proposes a task-driven approach AnaSizeCoder that utilizes the large language model (LLM) Qwen2.5 to automatically generate optimization code for transistor sizing in analog ...
Phys.org

An old jeweler's trick could unlock next-generation nuclear clocks

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...