A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...
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The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians

The political coalition that has formed under Trump’s banner has the potential to reshape American politics.
Peer review has met its match.
Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...