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In this web content, the author discusses the benefits of open-source software development and collaboration. They emphasize the importance of diverse collaboration in producing superior solutions. The development of Aeron, a high throughput messaging system, is used as an example of successful open-source development. The author highlights the passion and pride that often drives open-source […]
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I have been involved in competitive robotics for a while now, starting with FLL at a young age and continuing on to VEX. This year, our school reformed our FTC team after a 3 year hiatus. Out of our 15 members, 14 were new to the competition, but most had past robotics experience which we […]
The new log/slog package in Go 1.21 brings structured logging to the standard library. Structured logs use key-value pairs for easy parsing, filtering, searching, and analysis. Structured logging has consistently ranked high in the annual survey of Go programmers and many popular Go packages already provide it. By including structured logging in the standard library, […]
Marine biologist Lorian Schweikert discovered that hogfish can camouflage even after they’re dead, prompting her to investigate how they blend into their environment. Schweikert and her team identified a new type of cell deep in the hogfish’s skin that allows the fish to monitor its surroundings and edit its skin color. The hogfish’s ability to […]
In this web content, the author discusses their experience of building a package manager specifically for SQLite extensions. They explain that they needed a structured approach to managing these extensions, as there was no existing package manager for SQLite. The author goes on to describe the design decisions and implementation details of their package manager, […]
At a recent conference, mathematicians announced that they had proven the telescope conjecture false, making it the only one of Ravenel’s original conjectures to not be true. This discovery has far-reaching implications, showing that the universe of different shapes in high dimensions is more complicated than previously thought. To classify shapes, mathematicians use homotopy theory, […]
This web content, written by Peter Alfeld from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, provides a summary of how to approach and solve mathematical problems. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding the problem, identifying the unknown and the given data, and determining if the conditions are sufficient or redundant. They suggest […]
A team of researchers from Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, led by Siegfried Wagner and Pearse Keane, have made a groundbreaking discovery. For the first time, they have identified markers that indicate the presence of Parkinson’s disease in patients, on average, seven years before clinical presentation. This has been made possible through […]
OpenAI has announced the availability of fine-tuning for its GPT-3.5 Turbo model, with fine-tuning for GPT-4 coming later this year. This update allows developers to customize models to better suit their specific use cases and run these custom models at scale. Early tests have shown that a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 Turbo can match or […]
Microsoft is introducing Python to Excel, allowing users to manipulate and analyze data from Python within the Excel environment. This feature will be available as part of Excel’s built-in connectors and Power Query, without the need for additional software or add-ons. Through a partnership with Anaconda, Python libraries like pandas, statsmodels, and Matplotlib will be […]