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Abstract: The control performance of model predictive control based motor drives can be enhanced as the prediction horizon increases, but at the expense of large computational burden. To solve this ...

At the turn of the 8th century B.C.E., ancient Greek poet Hesiod wrote a curious tale about a strange robot named Talos. Forged by the godly blacksmith Haephestus and infused with ichor—the same ...

It will surprise exactly no one that one of the great musical wordsmiths of our times—Dan Bejar of Destroyer—so precisely and succinctly gets to the heart of Bite Down, the new album from North ...

Edit distance—a classical problem in computer science—has received ongoing attention from both practitioners and theoreticians. Given two strings A and B, the edit distance is the minimum number of ...

The Irish noise-rock quartet Gilla Band (fka Girl Band) are masters at finding the humorous and horrific within the mundane. On “Pears for Lunch,” from the band’s 2015 debut album Holding Hands with ...