I noticed that the current implementation of HashMap / HashSet in the core library uses xxHash32 with a fixed seed = 0 as the default hashing strategy. xxHash32 is not collision-resistant. It was ...

Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

A year ago, I wrote a piece here about how people were really using gen AI. That article seemed to hit a note: It was popular, featured in viral posts, and the beautiful accompanying infographic has ...

When trying to impl a kani proof for it (first without function contracts), memory usage is fine (~6GB), but after letting it run for over 1,5h, I killed it, because the algorithm seems to be too ...

Since ChatGPT was released just over two years ago, its use everywhere from the workplace to academia has expanded significantly. In schools across the country, teachers and administrators have been ...

If you take a look at your laptop's keyboard, you'll notice that the top row keys have icons printed above, with "F" and a number, like F1, F2, and so on, below each one. These are known as function ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. 10 Patents, "Top 100 AI Thought Leaders", Former CDO/CAIO/CA), Author In today’s fast-paced world, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

There’s a quote by the brilliant Jon Kabat-Zinn that goes like this: “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” This resonates deeply with me. It’s the seemingly small, everyday ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

Security is easiest when you are the password: You don’t have to memorize complicated keywords, but simply hold your face up to the camera or your finger on a sensor — and you can access your computer ...