The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

It isn't often that a decades-old assumption underpinning modern technology is overturned, but a recent paper based on the work of an undergraduate and his two co-authors has done just that. That ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The latest long-term support (LTS) release of the JDK is Java 21, which was released in ...

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What’s the difference between versions of Minecraft? That’s not as simple a question to answer as you might think. Most current players will be used to whatever version they’ve started on, whether ...

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

2. Define a Hash Table. A HashTable contains an array of HashNode. The size of the the array is initialized to a large enough value and is usually a prime number. The contains method checks if an ...

Ever smoke a “hash hole”? If you’re a first timer, fair warning: You probably won’t be prepared for the aftermath of the hit. Imagine taking a dab and ripping a bong at the same time, conveniently ...