Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
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Diff/AST: A Fine-Grained Source Code Differencing Tool

The tool is currently able to recognize Python, Java, Verilog, Fortran, and C/C++ via dedicated parsers. It compares abstract syntax trees (ASTs) node by node, while popular diff tools compare any ...
GitHub

pbtk - Reverse engineering Protobuf apps

Protobuf is a serialization format developed by Google and used in an increasing number of Android, web, desktop and more applications. It consists of a language for declaring data structures, which ...
InfoWorld

Class and object initialization in Java

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...
InfoQ

Java Feature Spotlight: Pattern Matching

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited ...
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fastp: an ultra-fast all-in-one FASTQ preprocessor.

Quality control and preprocessing of FASTQ files are essential to providing clean data for downstream analysis. Traditionally, a different tool is used for each operation, such as quality control, ...