Stacking positive and negative cannonballs
Imagine you are a soldier in charge of stacking cannonballs. Your fort has a new commander, a man with OCD who wants the cannonballs stacked in a very particular way. The new commander wants the balls stacked in tetrahedra. The balls on the bottom of the stack are arranged into
Read moreGetting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify
Ryan welcomes Glen Coates, VP of Product at Shopify, to dive into the intricacies of managing a developer-focused product, the challenges of backwards compatibility, and the implications of AI and LLMs in Shopify's development environment.
Read moreNot just a vibe, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey is really here
This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together.
Read moreUnderstanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success
What challenges do organizations face when adopting AI, and why is understanding its limitations key to success?
Read moreFrom basic knowledge to breakthroughs: how prompt engineering certification can boost your career quickly
Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and its applications span industries ranging from healthcare and education to finance, entertainment, and beyond.Among the most crucial skills emerging in the AI space is prompt engineering—the ability to craft precise and effective prompts that then guide evolving AI models to produce accurate, meaningful,
Read morePrompt engineering salary ranges: is it worth the switch?
While the tech industry continues to boom, jobs are being created every day that didn’t exist just a few years ago. One of the newest and most intriguing roles to emerge in the world of is prompt engineering—a specialized field focused on crafting inputs for artificial intelligence (AI) models to
Read moreA deep dive into building an agent framework for Salesforce
We’re always trying to make it easy for users to pick out the information they need and gain insights into their processes, so a natural language interface seemed like a dream.
Read moreHow Mathematica Draws a Dragonfly
Mathematica includes code to draw various whimsical images. For example, if you enter the following command in Mathematica Entity["PopularCurve", "DragonflyCurve"][ EntityProperty["PopularCurve", "Image"]] you get an image of a dragonfly. It draws such images with Fourier series. You can tell by asking for the parameterization of the curve. If you enter
Read moreHow often to the hands of a clock line up?
How often do the hour and and minute hand of an analog clock point in the same direction? The hands start pointing the same direction at midnight, then the hour hand moves clockwise (!) by 360° in 12 hours. The minute hand moves clockwise at the rate of 360° in
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