Nigel Alderton interview – the man behind ZX Spectrum classic Chuckie Egg

Chuckie Egg is being remade for mobile phones, and we’ve spoken to the bedroom programming teen protégé that originally made ...
Bored Panda on MSN

34 karma moments that prove the universe has a sense of justice

One woman faked a serious illness to get sympathy from everyone around her. Then she actually got sick. An online community ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
Baseball Prospectus

PECOTA Projections

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...
The Daily Telegraph

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...