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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
JavaScript hashing speed comparison: MD5 versus SHA-256
Hashing algorithms convert input data into a fixed-size string of characters, known as a hash value or digest. These algorithms are one-way functions, meaning the...
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Counting the digits of 64-bit integers
Given an integer in software, you may want to know how many decimal digits it needs. For example, the integer 100 requires 3 digits, the integer 9999 requires 4...
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How does your URL parser handle Unicode?
Most strings today in software are Unicode strings. It means that you can include mathematical symbols, emojis and so forth. There are many different versions of...
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Efficient In-Place UTF-16 Unicode Correction with ARM NEON
Modern-day text in software can be expected to be Unicode. Unicode is stored in two formats: UTF-8 and UTF-16. UTF-16 is an encoding system used by several platforms...
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Simpler and faster parsing code with std::views::split
Parsing text files is often confusing irrespective of your programming language. It can also be surprising slow. As an example, let us consider the following problem...
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