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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.
TechAnnouncer

Mastering HackerRank: Comprehensive Solutions and Strategies

Practice smart by starting with easier problems to build confidence, recognizing common coding patterns, and managing your ...
IEEE

Hybrid Feature-Hash Module for Image Duplicate Detection

Abstract: Identifying duplicates from image databases has a vast significance in various domains. This process can be directly utilized for several use cases as a standalone application or integration ...
Quanta Magazine

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...
IEEE

Unsupervised Contrastive Hashing With Autoencoder Semantic Similarity for Cross-Modal Retrieval in Remote Sensing

Abstract: In large-scale multimodal remote sensing data archives, the application of cross-modal technology to achieve fast retrieval between different modalities has attracted great attention. In ...
GitHub

This is a python module for username and passwords with hash functions, which you can customise.

>>> import pws256 >>> pw = pws256.Password("password") >>> pw.verify("password") True >>> pw.verify("pasword") False >>> pw.hsh_func <built-in function openssl_sha256 ...
Ars Technica

As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library

Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core ...