LLVM

{tag=Simple to state but hard to prove}
{wiki}

It is cool how even for such a "simple looking" problem, we were still unable to prove optimality as of 2020!


3SUM

Namecoin

{c}
{tag=Punched card}
{title2=1804}
{wiki}

\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/A_Jacquard_loom_showing_information_punchcards%2C_National_Museum_of_Scotland.jpg/800px-A_Jacquard_loom_showing_information_punchcards%2C_National_Museum_of_Scotland.jpg]

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlJns3fPItE]
{title=A Jacquard loom in action by NationalMuseumsScotland (2016)}
{description=The lack of audio is unsettling!}


Jacquard machine

{c}

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Y86 mentions:
> Y86 is a toy RISC CPU instruction set for education purpose.

One specification at: http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~reeves.92/CSE2421sp13/PracticeProblemsY86.pdf


{tag=Super-resolution microscopy}
{title2=Super-resolution microscopy}

For <super-resolution microscopy>.

This could have been a <Nobel Prize in Physics> as well!


2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

{c}
{title2=1977}
{wiki}

Largest programs ever written:
* https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-complex-software-written-in-Awk
* https://github.com/greencardamom/Wikiget/blob/master/wikiget.awk is 2690 lines long. Mentioned at: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16359/is-there-a-way-to-download-a-list-of-all-wikipedia-categories


Pseudocode

Lossy compression

Lower

Lower (compilation)

GNU make

Bipedalism

National Security Agency employee

Neuroscience

Nervous system by species

{c}
{tag=France}
{wiki=France_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction}


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