Productive constraints
This post will discuss two scripting languages, but that’s not what the post is really about. It’s really about expressiveness and (or versus) productivity. *** I was excited to discover the awk programming language sometime in college because I had not used a scripting language before. Compared to C, awk
Read moreIdentity-based attacks increasing, warns CrowdStrike
Successful identity-based attacks continue to plague IT departments, according to CrowdStrike’s sixth annual Threat Hunting report. Based on an analysis of what they call interactive intrusions — where a threat actor was operating with hands-on-keyboard in a victim’s IT environment for the 12-month period ending June 30 — researchers found:
Read moreNvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said today that the company had made an existential business decision in 2018 that few realized would redefine its future, and help redefine an evolving industry. It’s paid off enormously, of course, but Huang said this is only the beginning of an AI-powered near
Read moreCruise inches into Waymo’s territory in the Phoenix area
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has expanded its robotaxi radius in the Phoenix area by 20x as it seeks to compete with Alphabet-owned Waymo in its home court. Cruise soft-launched its robotaxi service in Chandler, a city southeast of Phoenix, in December 2022. The expanded arena will now
Read moreMedia groups urge the Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s news blocking
The CBC, News Media Canada, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters have filed an application with the Competition Bureau asking it to investigate Meta’s alleged anti-competitive conduct. This comes after Meta announced that it has started the process of ending news availability in Canada in response to the passage of
Read moreModern Software Engineering — Part 5: Continuous Evolution
“If you don’t evolve, you will die. “- Marcus LemonisContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreChris’ Corner: Useful HTML and CSS Patterns
The <table> is one of the grand enemies of responsive design. They don’t wrap (that wouldn’t make much sense) so they can “blow out” the width of a mobile device pretty easily. The overflow property also doesn’t work on them. So you gotta find a way, and it really depends
Read moreCollaboration aims to boost cancer research and develop innovation economy in Ontario
The University of Toronto’s Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) has joined forces with FACIT, a commercialization venture firm, in a move to bring AI-powered cancer research to the forefront while fostering economic development in Ontario. The partnership between T-CAIREM and FACIT is grounded in
Read moreNvidia’s AI Workbench brings model fine-tuning to workstations
Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create, test and customize generative AI models on a PC or workstation before scaling them to a data center and public cloud. Dubbed AI Workbench, the service can be
Read moreThe Role of a System Architect
Unraveling growth challenges: Could a system architect be the solution?Serverless Architecture from Classic Programmer PaintingsMost startups that go through hyper-growth tend to face the inevitable Bottlenecks of Scaleups, as masterfully described by ThoughtWorks.Having navigated the hyper-growth journey myself, I’ve witnessed firsthand how these technical bottlenecks can impede business progress, causing
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