Abstract: Motivated by the DNA storage paradigm, we consider the torn-paper channel (TPC), which models data storage in long DNA molecules and breaks the input sequence into a random number of ...

A strong test case is missing from the current test set that exercises both loops used in the merge algorithm — the main merging loop and the remaining-elements loop. Mixed distribution of elements in ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Kurzweil’s Singularity is somewhat hard to pin down by design, its name stolen from the spookiest frontiers of knowledge. In mathematics, it refers to when the model falls apart; in astrophysics, it ...

You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, sorted in non-decreasing order, and two integers m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2 respectively. Merge nums1 and nums2 ...