Abstract: This paper considers the basic question of how strong of a probabilistic guarantee can a hash table, storing $n(1+\Theta(1))\log n$-bit key/value pairs ...

If you struggle with getting to sleep or staying asleep, it may have to do with your bedside table, or more precisely, what's on top of it. Here are some items to remove from your bedside table to ...

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients. By Brian M. Rosenthal Four years ago, an unconscious Kentucky man began ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

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Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...

As we have seen in previous videos, it happens sometimes that two keys yield the same hash value for a given table size. This is called a “hash collision” or just “collision.” Why do hash collisions ...