It's that time of year again 🥰
February 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
It's that time of year again 🥰
Finally jumped the 24V COB LED lighting wagon from 12V halogen lamps. Soldering overhead from a weird angle is very interesting work .. but it had to be done. The old stuff is refusing to die (just repaired an electronic halogen lamp transformer) but I need more light in the kitchen.
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Finally jumped the 24V COB LED lighting wagon from 12V halogen lamps. Soldering overhead from a weird angle is very interesting work .. but it had to be done. The old stuff is refusing to die (just repaired an electronic halogen lamp transformer) but I need more light in the kitchen.
Turned out really good. 😋
January 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Turned out really good. 😋
Couple of hours turn into several hours with sourdough instead of commercial yeast. No matter. Now we bake after 6 hours of rising.
January 18, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Couple of hours turn into several hours with sourdough instead of commercial yeast. No matter. Now we bake after 6 hours of rising.
Four hours in, looking good. Let's give it another two hours. Yeah, we are going to bake at 9PM 😅
January 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Four hours in, looking good. Let's give it another two hours. Yeah, we are going to bake at 9PM 😅
Sourdough cinnamon rolls, mark two! Very high hydration, barely able to handle. Now letting rise for a couple of hours in the warm oven. Fingers crossed! 🤞
January 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Sourdough cinnamon rolls, mark two! Very high hydration, barely able to handle. Now letting rise for a couple of hours in the warm oven. Fingers crossed! 🤞
Successive cancellation decoding is a lot like eating a box of chocolates: If you accidentally choose a very flavorful one somewhere in the middle of the consumption, the rest of the chocolates will taste dull.
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Successive cancellation decoding is a lot like eating a box of chocolates: If you accidentally choose a very flavorful one somewhere in the middle of the consumption, the rest of the chocolates will taste dull.
Hard to see the low-SNR region with a logarithmic scale, so here with a linear scale and a list size of L=128. We see that the normal Polar codes are getting lucky more often and the CRC oracle even helps the PAC codes under list decoding:
January 13, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Hard to see the low-SNR region with a logarithmic scale, so here with a linear scale and a list size of L=128. We see that the normal Polar codes are getting lucky more often and the CRC oracle even helps the PAC codes under list decoding:
A larger list size makes the list-decoded Polar codes with CRC behave better than the Polarization-Adjusted Convolutional codes in the low SNR regime. Both the PAC and BCH codes don't use an oracle here and I would need to run a simulation for weeks, just to show you the interesting QEF-region.
January 12, 2026 at 12:56 PM
A larger list size makes the list-decoded Polar codes with CRC behave better than the Polarization-Adjusted Convolutional codes in the low SNR regime. Both the PAC and BCH codes don't use an oracle here and I would need to run a simulation for weeks, just to show you the interesting QEF-region.