Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf](courses.csail.mit.edu)

366 points by vismit2000 9 months ago | 62 comments

PDF of the 2018 revision of the MIT textbook Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, and Albert R. Meyer.

Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)(dl.acm.org)

71 points by luu 1 year ago | 57 comments

Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2022-02-02)(nongnu.org)

89 points by oriettaxx 2 years ago | 18 comments

Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)

48 points by nill0 26 days ago | 1 comments

A 2014 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper by Haigh, Priestley and Rope reconstructing the 1948 ENIAC Monte Carlo nuclear simulations run for Los Alamos.

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf](cr.yp.to)

21 points by akkartik 11 days ago | 0 comments

Daniel J. Bernstein's paper describing cryptoint, a C/C++ library of constant-time integer functions designed to resist compiler optimizations that introduce timing leaks.

Computation of the n'th digit of pi in any base in O(n^2) (1997)(bellard.org)

55 points by akkartik 3 years ago | 29 comments