Everything about Byte
Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits
The byte is a unit of digital information that commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ByteA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: YOLO-BYTE: An efficient multi-object tracking algorithm for automatic monitoring of dairy cowsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Z80 microprocessorThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Pharmacogenetics: From Bench to Byte— An Update of GuidelinesCited 913 times
- Go sideways: Octet (computing)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: BitA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
Noun A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Pharmacogenetics: From Bench to Byte— An Update of Guidelines
Permanent genetic memory with >1-byte capacity
Pharmacogenetics: From Bench to Byte
ByT5: Towards a Token-Free Future with Pre-trained Byte-to-Byte Models
Byte-level malware classification based on markov images and deep learning
Mass spectrometry sequencing of long digital polymers facilitated by programmed inter-byte fragmentation
An investigation of byte n-gram features for malware classification
Static malware detection and attribution in android byte-code through an end-to-end deep system
🆕 Influential since 2022
YOLO-BYTE: An efficient multi-object tracking algorithm for automatic monitoring of dairy cows
From byte to bench to bedside: molecular dynamics simulations and drug discovery
EBSNN: Extended Byte Segment Neural Network for Network Traffic Classification
Tracking and monitoring of individual pig behavior based on YOLOv5-Byte
Malware-on-the-Brain: Illuminating Malware Byte Codes With Images for Malware Classification
📚 Books worth reading
The Z80 microprocessorRamesh S. Gaonkar · 1988
The Z-80 microcomputer handbookWilliam T. Barden · 1978
Programming the M68000Tim King · 1983
The best of BYTEJay Ranade · 1994
The 8080/Z-80 assembly languageAlan R. Miller · 1981
Encyclopedia of graphics file formatsJames D. Murray · 1994- 📕Unix System V Release 3.2 Network Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1988
6502 assembly language subroutinesLance A. Leventhal · 1982
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