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A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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The project, called AudioNoise, appeared on Torvalds' GitHub earlier this month. Written primarily in C, the program explores digital audio effects and signal processing. It grew ...

Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, explains how it builds on Adam with Nesterov momentum, and shows you how to ...

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My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking update over the past day or so but the chatter is super limited right now. Many of the tools spike yesterday but like I said, the SEO community ...

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 ...