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Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm ...
InfoQ

Google’s TurboQuant Compression May Support Faster Inference, Same Accuracy on Less Capable Hardware

Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, a novel quantization algorithm that compresses large language models’ Key-Value caches ...
Baseball Prospectus

PECOTA Projections

PECOTA, which stands for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, is BP’s proprietary system that projects player and team performance PECOTA is a system that takes a player’s past ...
The Daily Telegraph

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

In computerese, his invention, Quicksort, is a “divide and conquer” algorithm – a set of mathematical instructions that breaks a complex problem into smaller, more manageable problems, solves them ...