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Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article What is Heap?A Heap is a special Tree-based data structure in which the tree is a complete binary tree.Types of Heap Data Structure:Generally, Heaps can be of two types:Max-Heap: In a Max-Heap the key present at the root node must be greatest among the keys present at all of its children. The same property must be recursively true for all sub-trees in that Binary Tree.Min-Heap: In a Min-Heap the key present at the root node must be minimum among…

Half of chief data officers surveyed by Exasol felt organizations' expectations of the CDO role were misinformed. SolStock/GettySo, who wants to make a career of amplifying the power of data? In an era when data is as valuable as gold, data professionals are in demand, and the career path now leads upward to chief data officer. However, CDO is a role loaded with plenty of uncertainties, as explained by Thomas Davenport and co-authors in Harvard Business Review, calling it "the most unstable C-suite job." As they…

Doctor Who fans have just realized that Matt Smith’s first season as the eleventh incarnation of the titular character is brilliant for a number of different reasons and deserves more recognition. Frankly speaking, the Raggedy Doctor could do with a bit more praise. Not that his tenure isn’t already as popular as all the rest of them, but some of his stories definitely rank among the underrated Who roster. Meanwhile, Star Wars fans are once again hilariously ripping into the title of Episode II – Attack of the Clones…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article In the Client JVM:The default maximum heap size is half of the physical memory up to a physical memory size of 192 megabytes and otherwise one-fourth of the physical memory up to a physical memory size of 1 gigabyte.Example:If a machine has 128 megabytes of physical memory, then the maximum heap size is 64 megabytes, and greater than or equal to 1 gigabyte of physical memory results in a maximum heap size of 256 megabytes.The maximum heap size is…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article What is Heap memory?Heaps are memory areas allocated to each program. Memory allocated to heaps can be dynamically allocated, unlike memory allocated to stacks.As a result, the heap segment can be requested and released whenever the program needs it. This memory is also global, which means that it can be accessed and modified from wherever in the program it is allocated instead of being localized by the function in which it is allocated.…

Image: Lucasfilm In a shocking turn of events, Star Wars fans have found yet another forum to express their hatred of the sequel trilogy’s main character Rey Skywalker after a simple question was posed. Star Wars fans’ distaste for the sequel trilogy feels almost performative at this stage in time, with three years since the last film in the saga they’re still not ready to move on. Despite the trilogy being critically adored for its first two outings and having a middling third act, fans are still not over it.…

Image via Universal Ahead of Guillermo del Toro’s very own horror anthology series, Cabinet of Curiosities, dropping on Netflix later this October, fans of the Oscar-winning director are reappraising one of the more underrated entries in his filmography. While the likes of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water went down as instant classics, some other of del Toro’s films failed to enjoy the same kind of acclaim. Like his 2015 Gothic ghost story, Crimson Peak. A glance at the movie’s IMDb page, with its…

via Sony Everyone knows that Ridley Scott’s Gladiator single-handedly revived the historical epic after the blockbuster swords-and-sandals tale went on to score rave reviews and land $460 million at the box office, before ultimately winning five Academy Awards from 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot faced the misfortune of releasing just eight weeks later, and as a result it ended up being caught in the wake of Russell Crowe’s vengeful Maximus. It was nowhere…

A beginner’s guide to building a heap in C++Photo by Pixabay on PexelsIn computer science, a heap is a type of tree-shaped data structure that has the special property of being an almost-completely binary structure satisfying the heap property. This property corresponds to max heaps and min heaps. A max heap is a data structure where each child node is less than or equal to its parent node. A min heap is a similar type of data structure where each child node is greater than or equal to its parent node. When these…

Slowing growth, scorching inflation and rising U.S. interest rates are intensifying a squeeze on emerging-market finances and stoking concern over a fully fledged debt crisis in low- and middle-income countries. The anxiety is evident in sky-high bond yields and month after month of capital outflows, as investors ditch the assets of vulnerable countries in favor of safer returns elsewhere. Strains that have been building since Russia invaded Ukraine are gradually getting worse, as the outlook for global growth sours and…