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Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
Less-experienced contact center agents become more productive with assistance from generative artificial intelligence, a new study finds.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,912 posts.
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The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outs...
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Rust on Espressif chips
Scott Mabin's blog
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A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)
The Privacy Whisperer, by Luiza Jarovsky
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A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married
As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, a significant increase from 20% in 2010.
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Simula – The forgotten programming language
What can it teach us?
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Get a personal teacher
Want to learn something new? Get a personal teacher as soon as possible. If you don't have enough money to pay someone, find a mentor among your friends o...
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The problem with federated web apps
Trying to make web applications federated is a popular effort. Examples include things like the “fediverse”, as well as various other efforts, like attempts to make distributed software forges, and so on. However, all of these efforts suffer from a problem which is fundamental in building federated applications built…
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Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)
How to stand out in job interviews as an engineer.
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New York Times Election Day Crossword (2009)
I recently read a book called Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8) [1] , an autobiography interweaved with interesting stories about crosswords. ...
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In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Kaboom.js 3000
JavaScript game programming library that helps you make games fast and fun
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The Liberty Phone
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Racket frustrates me
2024-07-06 I’ve archived this post Looking for the post Racket frustrates me? You can read the original post on The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Why archive this post? It’s been about a year since I published this post and since realized something: I don’t have any skin in the game anymore. My workflow is now…
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Case study: Algorithmic trading with Go
In this case study, we are excited to share an insider's perspective and look under the hood of how a Massive.com customer built an automated retail trading bot that is capable of monitoring the entire stock market in real-time.
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Hurl 4.0.0
Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl , that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:
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CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
How CommonJS became Node's module system, ESM solved modules for the browser, and why supporting both slows down the JavaScript ecosystem.
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AlmaLinux – Our Value Is Our Values
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates?Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL…
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How does Linux handle writes?
I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
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Goodreads has no incentive to be good
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
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The downfall of National Geographic
When the pages stop turning
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Atom feed format was born 20 years ago
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the effort that became the Atom feed format. It all began on June 16, 2003,
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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
I bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on.
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Publishing free software video games
A comprehensive guide to publishing your video game as free software
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LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
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How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?
In this blogpost, we introduce our latest series of chatbot models, LongChat-7B and LongChat-13B, featuring a new level of extended context length up to 16K tokens.