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Lehmer's Continued Fraction Factorization Algorithm

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You can also join our Reddit community here.Frontmatter for the 1931 paper ‘On Factoring Large Numbers’...
You can also join our Reddit community here.Frontmatter for the 1931 paper ‘On Factoring Large Numbers’ by D.H. Lehmer and R.E. Powers*We provide a hand-written implementation that can be translated to different programming languages.In 1931, at Stanford University, D.H Lehmer and R.E. Powers published a general int...
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Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings

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Functors, Applicatives, and Monads

thecoder.cafe

Hello! Today, we will explore functional programming with the concepts of functors, applicatives, and monads. We...
Hello! Today, we will explore functional programming with the concepts of functors, applicatives, and monads. We will discuss what they are and why they matter one step at a time. Note that all the examples will be in Haskell, but you’re not required to know Haskell to read this post.I’ve also added a section at the...
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Span<T>.SequenceEquals is faster than memcmp

richardcocks.github.io

In this post I look at improvements in .NET and using Span for performance and portability....
In this post I look at improvements in .NET and using Span for performance and portability. I was examining portability issues in a code base that I wanted to migrate from .NET framework 4.8.1 to .NET8. I discovered use of msvcrt.dll. I quickly established it is a popular stackoverflow answer for a fast way to compa...
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The Child and the Shadow by Ursula Le Guin [pdf]

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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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DNA scaffolds enable self-assembling 3D electronic devices

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Cargo Cult Agile (2008)

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Commentary on The Art of Agile Development's Stand-Up Meetings practice. Back in the 40's, the story...
Commentary on The Art of Agile Development's Stand-Up Meetings practice. Back in the 40's, the story goes, American troops landed on a remote island. The natives of the island had never seen modern civilization before, and were amazed by the men and materials Allied forces brought by the island. They watched the tro...
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An Ode to the Game Boy Advance

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In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release...
In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing S...

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Testing the latest AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites

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As we work on a new landing page for CodeYam, we saw this as a perfect...
As we work on a new landing page for CodeYam, we saw this as a perfect opportunity to test out some of the most talked-about AI tools for prototyping software projects. These tools promise to simplify website creation, but how well do they actually perform on a real task?As a product and web designer with over ten y...
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Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight

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Samsung Galaxy AI features can be set to on-device-only processing

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(Image credit: Future) It is possible to use on-device AI on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series,...
(Image credit: Future) It is possible to use on-device AI on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, but you'll miss out on certain features in doing so.Galaxy AI requires an internet connection for several of its sub-features, because Samsung processes (but does not keep) the data needed to make these specific Galaxy AI ele...
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Isar aerospace first test-flight (live)

isaraerospace.com

03:03 GMT+2 ∙ 30 Mar, 2025 After ignition of its first stage and liftoff at 12:30...
03:03 GMT+2 ∙ 30 Mar, 2025 After ignition of its first stage and liftoff at 12:30 PM CEST, launch vehicle successfully cleared the launch pad, was terminated at T+30 seconds and fell directly into the sea in controlled manner First test flight met set goals, substantial amount of flight data and experience will pave...
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In Defense of the Rat

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Hacker Laws

hacker-laws.com

Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. There are lots of laws which...
Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones. Please share and submit PRs! ❗: This repo contains an explanation of some laws, principles...
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It's the hottest car company. You can't buy one in America

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In the world of electric vehicles, there’s a Chinese company outdoing Elon Musk’s Tesla. And it’s...
In the world of electric vehicles, there’s a Chinese company outdoing Elon Musk’s Tesla. And it’s just getting started. BYD, the Shenzhen-based Chinese EV champion, eclipsed Tesla in annual sales last year. Last week, it unveiled a revolutionary battery charging technology that it says adds 250 miles of range in fiv...
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Rocket carrying European orbital vehicle crashes after launch

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Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident (1943)

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Aerial Incident of WW2 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article...
Aerial Incident of WW2 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February ...
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Tail Call Recursion in Java with ASM (2023)

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One kind of optimization offered by some compilers is tail call optimization. This optimization does not...
One kind of optimization offered by some compilers is tail call optimization. This optimization does not bring much, since the programmer can always tailor his code without recursion, especially in an imperative language. On the other side, recursive code often times more elegant, so why we don’t let the compiler do...
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USGS: M 7.1 Earthquake – 90 km SE of Pangai, Tonga

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NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy

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Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse

forbes.com

Tesla is in a world of hurt. Sales in California, its main market in the U.S.,...
Tesla is in a world of hurt. Sales in California, its main market in the U.S., plummeted 31% in January from a year ago. European numbers are even worse, dropping 43% in the year’s first two months. And in China, by far its most important market for profitability, Tesla sales crashed 29% through February. Its stock ...

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Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight

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Calculate Throughput with LLVM's Scheduling Model

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