A PriorityQueue is a list that always keeps its items sorted based on some rule, like smallest to largest. So, when you take an item out, you always get the one with the highest (or lowest) priority.

Two fintech heavyweights are vying for dominance in global payments: Stripe and Adyen. Both power a substantial share of online commerce, yet they’ve taken different paths to the top. Stripe, the ...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Batch codes are a type of codes specifically designed for coded distributed storage systems and private information retrieval protocols. These codes have received much attention in recent years due to ...

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Research AI model unexpectedly attempts to modify its own code to extend runtime Facing time constraints, Sakana's "AI Scientist" attempted to change limits placed by researchers.

Stack lights, also known as signal towers, are commonly in use in industrial settings to visually convey machinery or processes status. These lights consist of a vertical stack of colored lights that ...

MDS array codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in storage systems. In this paper, we first propose a novel method of constructing MDS array codes by deleting one row and one ...