Cross-pollination as a strategic advantage for forward-thinking organizations
Innovation is at the heart of any successful, growing company, and often that culture begins with an engaged, interconnected organization.
Read moreReady to drive your AI success? The prompt engineering roadmap you’ve been waiting for
On the wide open road of artificial intelligence, it can sometimes feel like you’re navigating uncharted territory without much to guide you. As AI models continue to evolve, the pressure to keep pace can feel like you’re merging onto a high-speed roadway with no clear direction ahead. This is where
Read morePrompt engineering for beginners: 8 tips for total AI success
You’ve heard about it in social and professional circles, but you’re still unclear what it means and how important it is for you.“Prompt engineering” is quickly becoming a term that is spoken widely, and not just among tech types or software developers. Key takeaways Prompt engineering is a creative skill
Read moreLooking for a job in prompt engineering? Interview questions you’ll likely be asked
Are you interested in the intersection of language, technology, and creativity? Have you wondered how you can use your writing and linguistic skills to land you a position in a field that also allows you to use your technical knowledge in the field of computers and AI? A job in
Read moreCycles of Elliptic Curves
The previous post gave two examples of pairs of elliptic curves in which #(E / Fp) = q and #(E / Fq) = p. That is, the curve E, when defined over integers mod p has q elements, and when defined over the integers mod q has p elements. Silverman and Stange
Read morePallas, Vesta, and Zcash
Yesterday’s post mentioned Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of elliptic curves named after characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Zcash uses a very similar pair of elliptic curves for zero-knowledge proofs: Pallas and Vesta. One named after a Greek goddess associated with war, and one named after a
Read moreLewis Carroll and Zero Knowledge Proofs
Elliptic curves are often used in cryptography, and in particular they are used in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). Cryptocurrencies such as Zcash use ZKP to protect the privacy of users. Several of the elliptic curves used in ZKP, and in particular in Zcash, have whimsical names taken from characters by Lewis
Read moreDiving into the results of the 2025 Developer Survey
Ryan and Eira welcome Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, to the show to discuss the newly released 2025 Developer Survey results. They explore the decline in trust in AI tools, shifts in popular programming technologies, and the patterns Erin saw in salary growth among developers.
Read moreRoundest regular solid
Iconjack posted on X today (Possibly) surprising fact: a regular dodecahedron is rounder than a regular icosahedron. You might reasonably suppose that having more sides would result in a rounder figure, so a figure with 20 sides should be rounder than a figure with 12 sides. But it’s the other
Read moreMachine learning by satisfiability solving
Define B = {0, 1} and a Boolean function fp: BN → B where p is a Boolean parameter vector in Bn. Consider that fp(x) can be represented as a Boolean expression whose variables are the entries of vectors p and x. Assume that c is the cost of computing
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