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These Ontario kids had their computer code sent to space
A group of Ontario kids successfully calculated the speed of the International Space Station using computer coding skills.
FFmpeg gets 100x faster with AVX-512 and handwritten assembly code
The FFmpeg team recently announced a massive speed increase thanks to some newly patched code. The open-source project is now ...
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This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It
Why do computers only work with the numbers 0 and 1? There are machines that process three digits with more efficiency than ...
El Mundo on MSN11d
Ramón Campayo, probably the smartest man in the world: "I read a 400-page book in an hour and memorized 64 binary numbers in a second"
With an IQ of 194 (the human average is 100), he has shattered all world memory championships. The speed of his brain is a ...
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Building Capability to Defend Against Malware
To analyze malware, the SEI's CERT researchers have developed a suite of tools based on a framework called Pharos, which is built on top of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ROSE compiler ...