New European+LatAm VC fund Boost Capital Partners takes aim at startups with games-level UX
Boost Capital Partners is the name of a new European + LatAm VC fund which aims to focus on startups with a focus on user experience. The London-based VC has hit its first close of $35 million, with a target of $40 million. It’s been founded by Alvaro Alvarez del
Read MorePython Case Study: Decorators and Pipelines
Photo by Firmbee.com on UnsplashThis short article shows how decorators, a feature of Python, can be used to implement a Pipeline-y thing — think “feature selection pipeline.” We do it in a way that’s easy to extend — both in adding new pipeline steps and broadening individual steps' core functionality.Starting implementationLet’s see first what we
Read MoreEfficiently Navigate Massive Documentations: AI-Powered Natural Language Queries for Knowledge…
Efficiently Navigate Massive Documentations: AI-Powered Natural Language Queries for Knowledge DiscoveryPhoto by Marcel Strauß on UnsplashIn this article, I wanted to share a proof of concept project I’ve been working on called UE5_documentalist. It’s an exciting project that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to potentially enhance your experience with massive documentation.While
Read MoreVolkswagen’s breakthrough could spark a battery manufacturing gold rush
Inflation hasn’t been kind to batteries. After more than a decade of remarkably consistent declines in the price of lithium-ion battery packs, last year, the trend reversed itself. The uptick was small but notable. New technologies tend to follow a similar path down the cost curve and batteries weren’t thought
Read MoreChrome on iOS to get built-in Lens support, along with new Maps and Calendar integrations
Google announced today that Chrome on iOS is getting a few new features, including built-in Lens support that will allow users to search using just their cameras. Although you can already use Lens in Chrome on iOS by long-pressing an image you find while browsing, you will soon also be
Read MoreTwitch’s new Partner Plus tier strains an already tense relationship with creators
Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier, which will grant qualifying streamers a 70/30 revenue split, has been hailed as a win for the platform’s community. But the program’s lofty requirements exclude the vast majority of Twitch Partners, and compounds the already tense relationship between Twitch and its creators. “A lot of
Read MoreWriting a Stream API in Go
Photo by Douglas Lopes on UnsplashWhen I first started using Go, I did not study the language to the extent I should have. It was only relatively recently that I delved deeper into what makes Go a fantastic language for building a large variety of software. With that said, in these
Read MoreCoffee Briefing Jun. 20 – Clik2pay announces new plugin; Google Canada opens applications for Startups Accelerator; Yardi creates home filter to help wildfire evacuees; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Clik2Play announces new plugin Clik2pay has announced a new plugin for WooCommerce which enables any business on WooCommerce
Read MoreGenerating REST API Clients With Fern
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Read MoreThe Free Monad — A Versatile Tool for Creating Test Doubles
The Free Monad — A Versatile Tool for Creating Test DoublesPhoto by Louis Hansel on UnsplashAs we know from the vast literature on software testing, many practical approaches exist for substituting as yet not fully functional software components with so-called test doubles — including stubs, fakes, and mocks. This article will look at a functional programming
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