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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.
A programmer beat an OpenAI tool at coding. He says the AI made him push himself to win.
"Congrats to the champion for holding us off this time," OpenAI wrote after its model came second at the AtCoder Heuristics World Finals in Tokyo.
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 more than 100 times faster – ...
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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 ...
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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 ...