Codetown ::: a software developer's community
Time: July 16, 2018 to July 19, 2018
Location: Oregon Convention Center
Street: 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
City/Town: Portland, OR
Website or Map: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/cp…
Event Type: conference
Organized By: O'Reilly
Latest Activity: Jun 15, 2018
Join us at OSCON -- O'Reilly Open Source Convention | July 16–19,2018 | Portland, Oregon
OSCON brings together talented people from diverse backgrounds who are doing amazing things with open source technologies. Explore the latest tools and technologies, get expert in-depth training in crucial languages, frameworks, and best practices, and get exposure to the open source stack in all possible configurations. Whether you're improving your command of a language, exploring new technologies, or getting tips to enhance your productivity, your time at OSCON will make you better at what you do. Because we are participating, you can save 20% on your pass with discount code USRG.
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Researchers from Meta, MIT, and the University of Washington introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), a new approach that enables language models to manage and edit their own context rather than relying on predefined mechanisms for summarization, compression, and information retrieval, reporting substantial gains in both performance and computational efficiency.
By Sergio De Simone
Reliability management company Gremlin has announced the general availability of Foresight AI, an agentic product that analyses services for potential failures, recommends changes and reruns tests to check that a fix works.
By Matt Saunders
AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across accounts with ordered delivery, simplified subscriber management, event replay, content-based deduplication, and a new publisher/subscriber-based pricing model.
By Renato Losio
Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted sampling. Pricing moves to ingestion and retention volume from December 1.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex, multi-step development tasks.
By Sergio De Simone
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