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2023-05-18
About hazard pointers.
#c++, #cs
2021-06-14
GJK is used for collision detection in video game physics engines.
#game-dev, #cs
2021-03-12
While there are min-Heaps and max-Heaps there are also min-max-heaps.
#cs
2020-11-25
Although they're resource-efficient, Green threads are named after their designers: the Green Team at Sun.
#cs
2020-10-13
While CAP imposes a trade off between consistency and availability during a partition, PACELC describes the base state as a trade off between consistency and latency.
#cs, #distributed-systems, #databases
2020-10-08
There is no consensus without timeouts.
#cs, #distributed-systems, #databases
2020-10-05
You can write a CPU using an HDL which then can be synthesized into a integrated circuit.
#cs
2020-10-05
There is an almost always division free algorithm to uniformly sample random integers from an interval.
#cs
2020-09-30
A k-d tree is a great data structure for searching in multiple dimensions.
#cs, #databases
2020-09-28
Distributed consistency is easy when the problem is monotonic.
#databases, #cs