A study by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) has found that between 33% and 46% of workers paid to train AI models on platforms such as Mechanical Turk may be outsourcing the work to AI themselves. They used an AI model to assess whether those hired to summarise extracts from medical […]
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Discord is set to launch new monetization strategies aimed at milking its user base for more cash. The platform will be expanding server subscriptions, adding tiered subscriptions and longer-term plans to effectively turn servers into storefronts. Discord is incorporating paywalled media channels as a way to offer subscribers exclusive content, a feature that is already […]
The didicosm is a three-dimensional space that belongs to the platycosm family, and has a flat geometry and a finite volume with no boundary. The didicosm is formed by taking a rectangular prism, identifying its faces, and creating a kaleidoscopic view, which shows different screw rotations. The loops in the didicosm are classified based on […]
Aeon is an open source toolkit designed for learning from time series, offering access to the latest machine learning algorithms and a range of classical techniques. The package aims to provide a single framework for algorithm comparison, employing efficient implementations using numba and interfaces with other time series packages. Aeon’s latest release is v0.3.0, and […]
After more than four years since the release of Svelte 3, the Svelte team has announced the stable release of Svelte 4, which mainly focuses on maintenance. However, the release still offers significant improvements such as a nearly 75% reduction in package size, resulting in faster download speeds and less waiting time for npm install. […]
Choosing the right business to start is crucial, as not all businesses are easily scalable when you’re a solo founder. Most of us make the mistake of imitating big companies like Netflix, Twitter, and Gmail, which require scale, target consumers, charge low prices, exist in large markets, and have a lot of money to spend. […]
Autodiscovery is a useful technique for browsers and software to easily find a website’s RSS feed, regardless of the format, using the link element from HTML and XHTML. The link must be added to the header of each page where the user might want to know that a feed is available, but publishers should include […]
When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio Code, it can be difficult to figure out which brackets match and which do not. The Bracket Pair Colorizer extension provides a solution by colorizing matching brackets in creative ways. However, due to performance issues caused by the Decoration API and missing access to VS Code’s […]
The author of this article discovered that the Atari 2600 game Video Chess, which was released in 1979, operated on only 128 bytes of memory without using any RAM memory. The game was optimized to use only a 4K ROM cartridge. The AI code uses a full-depth analysis that includes quiescence search, and also has […]
In Dimitri Sabadie’s latest blog post, he shares his experience with Helix editor after using it for 5-6 months as his primary editor. Despite Helix being different from Vim, Sabadie highlights its benefits, including natively integrating many features that are typically plugins in other editors, making the code more maintainable with a better user experience. […]