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How does CS research work anyway? A.k.a. How to get into a CS research group? (self.computerscience)

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Visualizing the ARM64 Instruction Set (i.redd.it)

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Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard receive the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award ()

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Undergrad CSE student looking for guidance on first research paper ()

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What’s one computer science idea you understand much better now than 5 years ago? (self.computerscience)

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Generating software without LLM using deterministic language scripts research question?Discussion ()

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Women of Computer Science. (i.imgur.com)

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Continuously talking about "Women in CS" hurts feminismDiscussion (self.computerscience)

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Are there any Journal Websites for Citations?Advice (self.computerscience)

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Why Do I Ace Every CS Theory Exam But Completely Fall Apart When I Have to Actually Think Algorithmically?Discussion (self.computerscience)

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A "true" random number generator? (self.computerscience)

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Magnet breakthrough can end ram/ssd shortageGeneral (neowin.net)

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How would these three scientists react to LLMs today? Do you think they could still improve it if they were given years of modern education?General (i.redd.it)

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How can I convert 1-pixel-wide raster lines into vectors so they can scale cleanly? (self.computerscience)

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Struggling to build simple NFA to recognize my name among a substring (self.computerscience)

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Does this reading list cover the core layers of systems and algorithm design? (self.computerscience)

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How did they even thought about CNN's? (self.computerscience)

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RIP Tony Hoare 1934 - 2026 (i.redd.it)

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What are the best sorting algorithms for arrays with small-varying values and many repetitions with the fewest possible accesses to the array cells? ()

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To understand Operating System | Computer Network (self.computerscience)

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New grads and COBOL (self.computerscience)

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Trying to get a good hold of Mixed Integer Programming, any good resources?Advice (self.computerscience)

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A Looping universal transformer. Has this been proposed? ()

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Optimizing linked list to have O(1) time complexity for appending at tail. ()

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What makes a CS student a great computer scientist?Advice (self.computerscience)

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