by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
The Markdown text format makes it easy to create human-readable text that’s also readily translated into HTML. Originally developed for blogging and message boards, it’s since become widely used as a source format for documentation. This article reviews four...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
After Brendan Eich’s conception of the language itself, the second most momentous event in JavaScript history (so far) was Ryan Dahl’s humble suggestion that JavaScript could run as an event loop on the server. This notion eventually became Node.js, the runtime that...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college. His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him on a career trajectory...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI field. Chief Java...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Concerns about C++ memory safety soon could be in the past. The C++ Alliance, a charity whose mission is to make the C++ language accessible and useful, is working to add memory safety features to C++, through its Safe C++ Extensions proposal. The alliance intends to...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 17, 2024 | Cloud
Generative AI depends on data to build responses to user queries. Training large language models (LLMs) uses huge volumes of data—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 used the CommonCrawl data set, which stood at 570 gigabytes and 400 billion tokens. But these data sets, while...
