Establishing the Standards of a Real-World Kotlin Project
Kotlin isn’t JavaPhoto by Louis Tsai on UnsplashKotlin is a very nice programming language that is very easy to learn for teams that already have experience working with Java and add many interesting features that can make the development of your project easier and safer. Indeed, in my personal opinion, Kotlin feels
Read moreFiltering on how words are being used
Yesterday I wrote about how you could use the spaCy Python library to find proper nouns in a document. Now suppose you want to refine this and find proper nouns that are the subjects of sentences or proper nouns that are direct objects. This post was motivated by a project
Read moreMeta launches an AI research community, but devotes few resources to it
Angling to stay relevant in the exploding AI field, Meta is launching a new organization, the Open Innovation AI Research Community, to foster what it describes as “transparency, innovation and collaboration” among AI researchers. Initially, the focus of the group will be the privacy, safety and security of large language
Read moreCrypto is known for financial use cases, but how can it grow from there?
As crypto and blockchain technology gains more attention among regulators, many are asking what are some use cases for the industry beyond making money, all in an effort to define why it exists in the first place. To help keep track of these use cases, Polygon Labs last month released
Read moreInstagram is making it easier to create Reels with the app’s templates
Instagram announced today that it’s introducing updates to its Reels templates to make it even easier for users to create engaging short-form videos, as the social media giant continues to compete with TikTok. The company is launching a new “Template Browser” that will let users sift through templates by categories.
Read moreThe NYPD is testing drones that broadcast public safety warnings during emergencies
The NYPD conducted its test on Sunday following weeks of heavy rain and flooding across the city. | Photo by James Carbone / Newsday RM via Getty Images The New York City Police Department is testing new drones that are designed to transmit audio messages to the public, such as
Read moreTechCrunch+ Roundup: Firing yourself as CEO, board deck basics, venture debt explained
Feeling pretty confident about the marketing slides you’ve prepared for your upcoming board meeting? If so, you may be on the wrong track. Very few board members have any direct experience in that area, so founders need to “stick with what can be measured,” advises Michelle Swan, a partner at
Read moreThousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books
If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it, and for good reason: it likely ingested all their works in the training process, and now uses their ingenuity for its own.
Read moreForever chemicals and blood donation
I saw a headline saying that donating blood lowers the level of forever chemicals in your body. This post will give a back-of-the-envelope calculation to show that this idea is plausible. Suppose there are chemicals in your bloodstream that do not break down and that your body will not filter
Read moreRedis Internals: Client Sends a Command and Receives a Response
The case when there are no I/O threadsPhoto by David Rangel on UnsplashIn the previous article of the Redis Internals series, I described what happens on the Redis side when a client connects to it via TCP. Now, I’ll consider what happens when a client sends a command and receives a response.
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