Chris’ Corner: Hurry Toward Maximum Language
Let’s talk HTML this week. The 2024 HTML Survey results are published, so that’s as good a reason as any. I’m a bit too daft to extract anything terribly interesting from the results themselves, but the survey itself acts as a sort of list of things we all might do
Read moreYour customer teams need an AI Interviewer (really)
8-12 weeks: that’s how long it takes most companies to hire a Customer Success Manager (CSM). Throughout those weeks and months, hiring teams spend countless hours poring over resumes and interviewing candidates—and after all that, they may struggle to know who is the right fit. With CodeSignal’s AI Interviewer for
Read moreOne of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership
Or Lenchner, CEO of Bright Data, joins Ben and Ryan for a deep-dive conversation about the evolving landscape of web data. They talk through the challenges involved in data collection, the role of synthetic data in training large AI models, and how public data access is becoming more restrictive. Or
Read moreNo code, only natural language: Q&A on prompt engineering with Professor Greg Benson
Will prompt engineering replace the coder’s art or will software engineers who understand code still have a place in future software lifecycles?
Read moreMaybe Copernicus isn’t coming
Before Copernicus promoted the heliocentric model of the solar system, astronomers added epicycle on top of epicycle, creating ever more complex models of the solar system. The term epicycle is often used derisively to mean something ad hoc and unnecessarily complex. Copernicus’ model was simpler, but it was less accurate.
Read moreTrigonometric interpolation
Suppose you want to interpolate a set of data points with a combination of sines and cosines. One way to approach this problem would be to set up a system of equations for the coefficients of the sines and cosines. If you have N data points, you will get a
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