New Ways To Make Code Run Faster
The news from Meta last week is a vivid reminder of the importance of making code run faster and more power-efficiently. Meta intends to purchase 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs this year [1]. Assuming 350W TDP [2] and $0.1621 per kW-h [3] average US energy cost, one expects a figure of
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Learn how to use React Icons and other React-ready icon libraries to easily add ready-made SVG icons to your React projects. Continue reading Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need on SitePoint.
Read moreBrute force cryptanalysis
A naive view of simple substitution ciphers is that they are secure because there are 26! ways to permute the English alphabet, and so an attacker would have to try 26! ≈ 4 × 1026 permutations. However, such brute force is not required. In practice, simple substitution ciphers are breakable
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