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10 months ago
UX design

Comic Mono

Comic Mono is a free and open-source font that is designed to be used for coding, programming, and other computer-related tasks.
Comic Mono is a monospaced font, meaning all characters have the same width, allowing for easier alignment and neatness when used for coding and programming.
Comic Mono is available for download in both TrueType and OpenType formats for use with a variety of operating systems and applications. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
World politics

With a New, Improved Einstein,' Puzzlers Settle a Math Problem

In March, a team of mathematical tilers announced their solution to a storied problem: They had discovered an elusive einstein a single shape that tiles a plane, or an infinite two-dimensional flat surface, but only in a nonrepeating pattern.I've always wanted to make a discovery, David Smith, the shape hobbyist whose original find spurred the research, said at the time.
artificial-intelligence
Acm
10 months ago
Digital life

Google's Photo App Still Can't Find Gorillas. And Neither Can Apple's

1. AI-driven photo apps are still far from perfect, as evidenced by the fact that not even Google Photos or Apple Photos can identify a gorilla in a photo.
2. AI technology is still prone to bias and misclassification of certain images, particularly those with people of color in them.
www.fastcompany.com
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Game engine company Unity plans to integrate AI into its platform

Unity, the cross-platform game engine company that provides a range of tools and services for creators to produce games, plans to integrate generative AI into its engine.The company's senior vice president of artificial intelligence, Danny Lange, tells Fast Company that the real-time game development platform is embracing AI to assist game developers that utilize Unity's engine to produce higher-quality content quicker.
www.winemag.com
11 months ago
Wine

Yes, ChatGPT Is Creating Beer Now

You've probably heard breweries use terms like handcrafted, craft brewed and artisanal to describe their products.Now a new phrase might be added to the mix: conceived by artificial intelligence (AI).With the rise of ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing AI and a host of other chatbots, brewers have been using search engines to create beer recipes for human consumption.
Lifewire
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Why You Don't Want AI Chatbot Search in Your Browser

This week, both Google and Microsoft both announced artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot additions to their search engines, which is good for them, but is it so great for us?OpenAI's ChatGPT has given us a taste of what AI can cook up when fed on the internet.The ideal AI assistant would be like the disembodied computer voices in sci-fi TV shows, understanding our questions and answering them accurately in a succinct, human conversational style.
The JetBrains Blog
1 year ago
Python

Webinar: "Speech-to-image generation using Jina" | The PyCharm Blog

If you're involved in machine learning at all, you can't have missed the plethora of groundbreaking models that have come out in past months.Two of the most hyped models are Whisper, OpenAI's state-of-the-art speech recognition model, and Stable Diffusion, DreamStudio's groundbreaking image generation algorithm.
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PyBites
11 months ago
Python

From 0 To 1 In Python: How Charles Shipped His Fusion Chronicles Django App - PyBites

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast!Watch here:
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In this insightful conversation with software developer, PDM-er, and entrepreneur Charles Carriere, we delve into his journey of launching personal projects, overcoming imposter syndrome, and mastering Python.He shares his experience of creating a Django app in our PDM program around fusion energy, aggregating and summarizing (using AI!) articles, and his future plan of creating a job board on the site as well.
PyBites
11 months ago
Python

Lessons From A Software Developer's Path: Networking, Growth & Side Projects - PyBites

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast!Watch here:
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In this podcast episode, Peter Lynch, a software developer, discusses his journey into web development and his entrepreneurial interests.He shares his experience of transitioning from a corporate job to pursuing his passion for building his own projects.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

You can now run a GPT-3 level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

Things are moving at lighting speed in AI Land.On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called "llama.cpp"that can run Meta's new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop.Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well.
The Three of Wands
1 year ago
Python

Python is two languages now, and that's actually great

Everyone doing Python nowadays is aware Python supports optional type hints, and has for some time now.This has created a small schism in the community, with some people being completely uninterested in type hinting and a little defensive about the language partially going into a new direction, some people being very exciting about the potential of our evolving type tooling, and the vast majority of folks in the middle, not entirely sure where and how to apply type hinting best.
Medium
1 year ago
Vue

TypeScript Helper Modules: Making Lives Easy

Over the last 4 years of my journey in becoming the software developer 👨‍💻 I am today, a lot of it has become muscle memory to me.And when I really think about it, I surely feel it is a sign of growth 🚀; I'm definitely not done yet.With that being said, it is only fair to automate, or abstract away, this repetition into an elegant package/bundle that anyone can use in their projects, and not just me.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[August 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

33rd issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.
 @PatentBuddy11 months ago
Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI
Futurism
11 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Amazon Is Being Flooded With Books Entirely Written by AI

AI Books
Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports, a trend that's turning out to be a huge headache for human authors.It's a growing problem, making it more difficult to distinguish real authors from AI-generated bylines of non-existent writers.
Tom's Guide
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

ChatGPT Plus is here - and it has Google in its sights

(Image credit: Shutterstock)
There have been rumors of a "Professional Plan" for a while now, with one user, Zahid Khawaja, even showing off the capabilities of this premium version of the chatbot AI on Twitter.But now it's official - and it's called ChatGPT Plus.In a blog post today, ChatGPT creator (opens in new tab) confirmed that it will now offer a paid subscription version of the popular chatbot for $20 a month.
The IP Law Blog
11 months ago
Intellectual property law

Apple Prevails on "Epic" Antitrust Claim

On April 24, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., and affirmed the trial court's ruling in Apple's favor as to Epic's Sherman Act claim for restraint of trade relating to Apple's distribution of apps in its App Store.(This article does not address the other antitrust and state law claims also at issue in the 91-page opinion.)The
Zero To Mastery
11 months ago
Python

[April 2023] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

41st issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[February 2023] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

39th issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
PyBites
1 year ago
Python

Software Engineering And Entrepreneurship - PyBites

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This week we talk with  Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur.We dive into: - His background.- Why he uses Python and the switch from Java. - His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he's maintaining.- How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering.
Mouse Vs Python
1 year ago
Python

Python 101 - How to Work with CSV files - Mouse Vs Python

There are many common file types that you will need to work with as a software developer.One such format is the CSV file.CSV stands for "Comma-Separated Values" and is a text file format that uses a comma as a delimiter to separate values from one another.Each row is its own record and each value is its own field.
 @auditgarantdigital11 months ago
Newly discovered 'einstein' shape can do something no other tile can do | CNN
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

Newly discovered 'einstein' shape can do something no other tile can do | CNN

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with a newly discovered 13-sided shape.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[March 2023] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

40th issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[November 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

36th issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[October 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

35th issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Arts

From CNN+ to Fyre Festival: This collector seeks swag from companies with epic ends

Christina Warren wears a MoviePass T-shirt, a piece of her collection of swag from dead companies.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

GitHub Launches GPT-4-Powered Copilot Coding Assistant

Software developer hosting service GitHub has launched a new version of its Copilot coding assistant powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) multimodal large language model.The original GPT-3-powered Copilot operated within the developer's editor window to autocomplete lines or code sections, or to produce code based on plain language requests.
BBC Sport
1 year ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Williamson 'taken aback' by Woman's Power List award

Euro 2022-winning England captain Leah Williamson has topped the Woman's Hour Power List for 2023.BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour selected sport as its focus for this year's rankings, asking listeners to make suggestions across several categories.A judging panel including Paralympic and Olympic gold medallists Tanni Grey-Thompson and Sam Quek then chose a top 30 with Williamson heading the list.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Video game pioneer Shuhei Yoshida to be awarded prestigious Bafta Fellowship

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Video game industry pioneer Shuhei Yoshida will be honoured with a prestigious Fellowship at the Bafta Games Awards, it has been announced.Mr Yoshida, Head of Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) Independent Developer Initiative, will be presented with the accolade at the event on March 30.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Jailed activist Alaa Abdel-Fatta's health has deteriorated severely'

The family of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has been unlawfully jailed in Egypt, says his health has deteriorated severely after visiting him in prison.The pro-democracy activist has spent much of the last decade behind bars in the Middle Eastern country.He is currently serving a five-year sentence after being convicted on charges of spreading false news after he shared social media posts about dire prison conditions.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Sunak raises case of jailed British activist with Egyptian president

Rishi Sunak has expressed deep concern to Egypt's president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi while raising the case of a British pro-democracy activist jailed by Cairo for much of the past decade, Downing Street has said.Alarmed MPs have warned that British-Egyptian citizen Alaa Abdel-Fattah may not live for much longer, after he announced he would begin a water strike to coincide with the UN's Cop27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Cleverly urged to secure release of British citizen on hunger strike in Egypt

Dozens of MPs and Lords have urged the foreign secretary to immediately secure the release of a British citizen unlawfully jailed in Egypt, warning that after a 200-day hunger strike he may not live for much longer.Alaa-Abdel Fattah, 40, has been consuming just 100 calories a day since May in protest of the Egyptian authorities' refusal to grant him a consular visit, despite the fact his case has been raised twice by former prime minister Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss, as foreign secretary.
Patently-O
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Standing to Challenge Inventorship

by Dennis Crouch
Krzysztof Sywula's story has some thematic elements of the Netflix Glass Onion show.As he tells it, Sywula was at the Santorini Island Grill with Alexis DaCosta & Vincent Coletti talking about creating an improved app for ride sharing.During one of the meetings, Sywula apparently sketched-out a diagram on a napkin that he gave to DaCosta and that eventually served as a basis for the patent filings in this case.
InfoWorld
1 year ago
Data science

MIT startup DataCebo offers tool to evaluate synthetic data

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) spin-off DataCebo is offering a new tool, dubbed Synthetic Data (SD) Metrics, to help enterprises compare the quality of machine-generated synthetic data by pitching it against real data sets.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[May 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Bent track a factor in Amtrak crash that killed 3 in Montana en route from Chicago to Seattle

Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak derailment in Montana disclosed Tuesday that the railroad track was bent along a curve near the accident site, and the problem got worse as freight trains traveled over the area before the crash.Details on the bent track were included in hundreds of pages of investigative documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
TechSpot
1 year ago
Marketing

The Complete Google SEO & SERP Certification Bundle | TechSpot

What's Included


SEO Training 2021: Beginner To Advanced SEO | Google SEO #1

Shubham Sarda Shubham Sarda | Developer & Digital Marketer, Top Rated Freelancer Shubham is a software developer and digital marketer with a passion for teaching.He has worked with many funded startups, self projects, and as a top-rated freelancer on marketplaces.
TechSpot
1 year ago
Marketing

The Complete Google SEO & SERP Certification Bundle | TechSpot

What's Included


SEO Training 2021: Beginner To Advanced SEO | Google SEO #1

Shubham Sarda Shubham Sarda | Developer & Digital Marketer, Top Rated Freelancer Shubham is a software developer and digital marketer with a passion for teaching.He has worked with many funded startups, self projects, and as a top-rated freelancer on marketplaces.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[December 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

37th issue!If you missed the previous ones, you can read all the previous issues of my monthly Python newsletter here.If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.Python is now the most popular language with lots of growing job demand (especially in the fields of Web, Data Science and Machine Learning).
Coding Dojo Blog
1 year ago
Software development

Is Cybersecurity a Good Career? - Coding Dojo Blog

When you're ready to start or change careers, it's important to consider your priorities.What is most important to you in a job - Salary?Work-life balance?Job stability?And the most important question of all: Is this even a good career to get into?You might be wondering about all of these aspects and more if you're starting down a cybersecurity career path.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[September 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.
Zero To Mastery
1 year ago
Python

[July 2022] Python Monthly Newsletter | Zero To Mastery

If it's your first time here... (otherwise, skip this part)
Being a Python developer is a fantastic career option.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Germany news

Iran expels 2 German diplomats in tit-for-tat move DW 03/01/2023

The decision follows a similar move by Germany after a court in Tehran sentenced a German-Iranian citizen to death.Iran has designated two German envoys as personae non gratae and ordered them to leave the country, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday."The two German diplomats are being expelled due to their country's irresponsible interference in Iran's internal and judicial affairs," ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Germany news

Iran expels 2 German diplomats in tit-for-tat move DW 03/01/2023

The decision follows a similar move by Germany after a court in Tehran sentenced a German-Iranian citizen to death.Iran has designated two German envoys as personae non gratae and ordered them to leave the country, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday."The two German diplomats are being expelled due to their country's irresponsible interference in Iran's internal and judicial affairs," ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said.
Theserverside
1 year ago
Agile

Best Scrum developer certifications

Best Scrum developer certifications
As big tech companies including Twitter and Facebook lay off thousands of programmers, the job market becomes increasingly competitive.As such, developers who seek gainful employment and top-tier compensation must find ways to set themselves apart from the crowd.One of the ways to do that is to complement your education and work experience with certifications that are highly in demand and respected in the industry you're in.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

EFF Award Winner: Alaa Abd El-Fattah

For over thirty years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has awarded those paving the way for freedom and innovation in the digital world.Countless luminaries working in digital privacy and free speech gathered for this Pioneer Award Ceremony in San Francisco over the decades.This year, we are excited to relaunch that annual celebration as the first-ever EFF Awards!
Rubyflow
1 year ago
Ruby on Rails

Sarah Wells on Mastering Microservices Over Monolithic Applications

A must-listen interview with Sarah Wells, Software Developer, about her experience in transitioning to microservices and what we should know before starting.
The 6 Figure Developer
1 year ago
Podcast

Deeper Dive into NX with Juri Strumpflohner - The 6 Figure Developer

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:26 - 28.0MB)
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Bitcoin
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Downplays Ethereum PoW Fork, Hopes It 'Doesn't Lead to People Losing Money'

Vitalik Buterin Gives His Opinion on the Proposed Ethereum PoW Fork Idea
Bitcoin
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Traders Withdraw $3.6 Billion in Ethereum From Crypto Exchanges in 17 Days

Data Shows Significant Amounts of Ethereum Have Been Withdrawn From Centralized Exchanges
Theregister
1 year ago
Information security

OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential security flaw

The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, contains a memory corruption vulnerability that imperils x64 systems with Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX512).
TNW | House-Of-Talent
1 year ago
Software development

Developers: Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology - do this instead

It's a waste of time to try to learn every new technology.Instead, focus on learning how to learn.
The tech industry thrives on the insecurity of software developers.
TNW | House-Of-Talent
1 year ago
Software development

Developers: Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology - do this instead

It's a waste of time to try to learn every new technology.Instead, focus on learning how to learn.
The tech industry thrives on the insecurity of software developers.
TNW | House-Of-Talent
1 year ago
Software development

Developers: Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology - do this instead

It's a waste of time to try to learn every new technology.Instead, focus on learning how to learn.
The tech industry thrives on the insecurity of software developers.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Column: Well, that's over. But now the race for L.A. mayor really begins

Griselda Chapa stood in the street outside her Boyle Heights home, camera at the ready.
MUO
1 year ago
Web design

A Beginner's Guide to SVG Animation With CSS

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) are more than just image files.As an XML application, SVGs contain markup that looks and works much like HTML.
Smashing Magazine
1 year ago
JavaScript

Understanding Weak Reference In JavaScript - Smashing Magazine

Quick summary ↬ In this article, Frank Joseph explains both weak and strong references in JavaScript, as well as the concept of reachability.Let's dig in!
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