Hoare is the man who developed quicksort at the age of 26. Quicksort is an algorithm that repeatedly selects one random piece of data from randomly arranged data, sorts the data by whether it is ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Large language models appear aligned, yet harmful pretraining knowledge persists as latent patterns. Here, the authors prove current alignment creates only local safety regions, leaving global ...