The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Comment: At 1000 vertices both algorithms are very close. Kruskal executes millions of operations, while Prim stays under one million, but times are similar.

import torch @torch.compile(backend="inductor") def fn(src, index, base_tensor): src = src + 10 torch.use_deterministic_algorithms(True) base_tensor.scatter_(0, index ...

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ABSTRACT: To effectively evaluate a system that performs operations on UML class diagrams, it is essential to cover a large variety of different types of diagrams. The coverage of the diagram space ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

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This article introduces a model-based design, implementation, deployment, and execution methodology, with tools supporting the systematic composition of algorithms from generic and domain-specific ...

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