The impossible puzzle
It’s fascinating that there’s such a thing as the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship. The winning team of the two-person thousand-piece puzzle round can assemble a Ravensburger puzzle in less than an hour—that’s about 3 -1/2 seconds per piece. It makes you wonder, how could you measure the hardness of a
Read moreResearch roadmap update: November 2024
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Read moreWhen do moments determine a function?
The use of the word “moment” in mathematics is related to its use in physics, as in moment arm or moment of inertia. For a non-negative integer n, the nth moment of a function f is the integral of xn over the function’s domain. Uniqueness If two continuous functions f
Read moreFloating point: Everything old is new again
In the early days of computing hardware (and actually before) mathematicians put a lot of effort into understanding and mitigating the limitations of floating point arithmetic. They would analyze mundane tasks such as adding a list of numbers and think carefully about the best way to carry out such tasks
Read moreNavigating bias in the AI era: A conversation with Dr. Clementine Collett
From gender stereotypes, to gravitating towards people like yourself, to overvaluing first impressions, humans undoubtedly have bias. These biases can have major impacts on hiring at your organization and hinder your ability to hire the right people with the right skills for the job. To combat this, many companies have
Read moreHow a creator of React is rethinking IDEs
Tom Occhino, now Chief Product Officer at Vercel, tells Ben about how he contributed to the development of React at Facebook and the contentious decision to make React open-source. They also talk about what community feedback has been like on Next.js 15, Vercel’s GenAI web development tool, and how Vercel
Read moreA Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions
Read A Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions and learn AI with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more. Continue reading A Deep Dive into Building Enterprise grade Generative AI Solutions on SitePoint.
Read moreHow hard is constraint programming?
I’ve been writing code for the Z3 SMT solver for several months now. Here are my findings. Python is used here as the base language. Python/Z3 feels like a two-layer programming model—declarative code for Z3, imperative code for Python. In this it seems reminiscent of C++/CUDA programming for NVIDIA GPUs—in
Read moreLife in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind
On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier. They explore the needs that both merchants and consumers have for creating a
Read moreCelebrating 1 million practices completed on CodeSignal Learn
Today, we’re beyond excited to celebrate an incredible milestone: 1 million practice sessions completed on CodeSignal! Over just a few months, our dedicated community of learners have put in thousands of hours of work to sharpen their skills, build new skills, and advance their careers. Earlier this year, we launched
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