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RoboCat is a new AI agent that can perform a variety of tasks across different robotic arms and incorporates a “self-improvement” training cycle. Developed by researchers at OpenAI, RoboCat can learn a new task with as few as 100 demonstrations, drawing from a vast and diverse dataset to reduce the need for human-supervised training. By […]
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The author of this article highlights how the defer keyword in Go allows for a simple way to clean up resources upon function return, reducing the likelihood of bugs. They believe it’s so useful that it should be part of every language, especially for freeing locally allocated memory in C. The author has even implemented […]
Arizona State University (ASU) has transformed itself into a top research institution while increasing access to affordable higher education after reforming the Ivy League playbook, which President Michael Crow co-authored in his book, Designing the New American University. ASU’s model, the “New American University,” allows for inclusion of more students rather than defining the university’s […]
Peter Schultz and his team managed to hack the genetic code by tinkering with the machinery of protein synthesis. By chemically attaching unnatural amino acids to transfer RNAs (tRNAs) that could recognize one of the three stop codons, and identifying and modifying tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that were bio-orthogonal to the host cell, they were […]
Emily Grosvenor, a feng shui consultant and design magazine editor, provides advice on how to incorporate a love of books into life while acknowledging the human desire for balance, beauty, and space. Grosvenor recommends that book lovers let their space dictate how many books they have and which books should stay in physical form rather […]
OceanGate’s tourist submarine, Titan, has gone missing with a crew of five aboard during an expedition to the Titanic shipwreck site. The non-standard design of the craft included steering apparently handled by an obsolete $30 Logitech F710 wireless PC game controller from 2010. Deep-sea rescuers fear for the safety of those on board as the capsule is bolted shut […]
Linen, a search engine friendly Slack alternative for communities, has launched its Mac and Windows Desktop clients built on Tauri, an open-source Electron alternative that is built on Rust. Compared to Electron, Tauri promises more performant and secure desktop clients by using a Webview that allows native browser’s webviews instead of shipping with Chromium. While […]
Using the “exit trap” pattern in Bash scripts can make them more reliable. By trapping the pseudo-signal “EXIT”, code placed in a “finish” function can ensure necessary cleanup operations are always performed, even in the event of an unexpected error. Without this pattern, there is a risk of resource leaks and other maintainability problems. The […]
DevPod is an open-source platform built by developers for developers. It offers a client-only environment with no vendor lock-in or server-side setup. It provides customization with its unopinionated support for any infrastructure, IDE, and programming language. DevPod helps to spin up dev environments based on the devcontainer.json file or by project analysis. With powerful desktop […]
Regular expressions are a powerful tool that can be used in different programming languages. A regular expression in Perl, /^1?$|^(11+?)1+$/, can be used to check if a number is prime or not. Although skeptical at first, someone tested the regular expression in Ruby and found that it also works in that language. The regular expression […]