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Automation can be benchmarked using confidence scores, which indicate the model's certainty about its predictions. By setting confidence thresholds, we can measure the proportion of data that a model can accurately handle without human intervention. This…

Reading too early may slow adults’ language learning progress.

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those…

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, lifestyles, ...

Lego’s gaming partnerships include Fortnite, 2K and Warner Bros.

Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how…

Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

Explore the infinite complexity of the Mandelbrot Set with this online fractal viewer. Zoom in and generate high resolution images.

Lightweight Pandas monkey-patch that adds async support to map, apply, applymap, aggregate, and transform, enabling seamless handling of async functions with controlled max_parallel execution. - te...

We've just unveiled ERNIE 4.5 & X1! 🚀

As a deep-thinking reasoning model with multimodal capabilities, ERNIE X1 delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price. Meanwhile, ERNIE 4.5 is our latest foundation model and new-generation native…

For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…