Choosing the Best WordPress CRM Plugin for Your Business
Learn how to choose the best WordPress CRM plugin for your business as we cover seven great plugin options to get you started. Continue reading Choosing the Best WordPress CRM Plugin for Your Business on SitePoint.
Read moreHow much will a cable sag? A simple approximation
Suppose you have a cable of length 2s suspended from two poles of equal height a distance 2x apart. Assuming the cable hangs in the shape of a catenary, how much does it sag in the middle? If the cable were pulled perfectly taught, we would have s = x
Read moreUnique letter patterns in words
The word Mississippi has a unique pattern of letters. If you were solving a cryptogram puzzle and saw ZVFFVFFVCCV you might guess that the word is Mississippi. Is the pattern of letters in Mississippi literally unique or just uncommon? What is the shortest word with a unique letter pattern? The
Read moreHow to Organize Technical Research?
64 million scientific papers have been published since 1996 [1]. Assuming you can actually find the information you want in the first place—how can you organize your findings to be able to recall and use them later? It’s not a trifling question. Discoveries often come from uniting different obscure
Read moreA leading ML educator on what you need to know about LLMs
Machine learning scientist, author, and LLM developer Maxime Labonne talks with Ben and Ryan about his role as lead machine learning scientist, his contributions to the open-source community, the value of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and the process of fine-tuning and unfreezing layers in LLMs. The team talks through various challenges
Read moreA surprising result about surprise index
Surprise index Warren Weaver [1] introduced what he called the surprise index to quantify how surprising an event is. At first it might seem that the probability of an event is enough for this purpose: the lower the probability of an event, the more surprise when it occurs. But Weaver’s
Read moreEstimating an author’s vocabulary
How would you estimate the size of an author’s vocabulary? Suppose you have a analyzed the author’s available works and found n words, x of which are unique. Then you know the author’s vocabulary was at least x, but it’s reasonable to assume that the author may have know words
Read moreChatGPT Plugins for Marketing Success
Learn about ChatGPT plugins and how they help businesses engage, create, manage, and analyze, benefiting efficiency, engagement, and more. Continue reading ChatGPT Plugins for Marketing Success on SitePoint.
Read moreDetecting the language of encrypted text
Imagine you are a code breaker living a century ago. You’ve intercepted a message, and you go through your bag of tricks, starting with the simplest techniques first. Maybe the message has been encrypted using a simple substitution cipher, so you start with that. Simple substitution ciphers can be broken
Read moreMaking collaboration intuitive and meaningful
In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see updates that make collaboration more intuitive and meaningful at several different touch points in the user journey, including a reimagined homepage.
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