Abstract: Cryptographic techniques are reviewed in this literature review, with particular attention paid to their applicability, importance, contributions, and field strengths. These algorithms ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Something to visualize things like dicts in python or plain objects in javascript. Hashmaps are used in a lot of algorithms and it'd be nice to have something like this to represent them Could be a ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

I did it! I figured out the tricks to getting crispy fried hash browns- and there's three big ones. Clarified Butter, rinsing the starch off the potato and having a lid while cooking. Nato scrambles ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Emma Stone had to learn a lot about conspiracy theories for her role in Ari Aster’s COVID-era Western “Eddington” — so much so that it started working its way into her social media algorithms. Stone ...

Fluffy on the inside, golden and crisp on the outside — the perfect hash brown isn’t magic, it’s technique. From potato prep to pan temp, here are the essential tricks for making hash browns that ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...