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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.
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By Daniel CurtisProducing a Better Software Architecture with Residuality Theory
Software architecture is tough because it blends coding, math, and business systems. Due to surprises, architectures tend to become irrelevant over time, Barry O'Reilly said. He presented residuality theory, where he suggested stressing naive architectures to reveal hidden “attractors” in complex business systems. This allows designs to better survive change and uncertainty.
By Ben LindersThinking Machines Releases Tinker API for Flexible Model Fine-Tuning
Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an API for fine-tuning open-weight language models. The service is designed to reduce infrastructure overhead for developers, providing managed scheduling, GPU allocation, and checkpoint handling. By abstracting away cluster management, Tinker allows fine-tuning through simple Python calls.
By Daniel DominguezClaude Sonnet 4.5 Ranked Safest LLM From Open-Source Audit Tool Petri
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has emerged as the best-performing model in ‘risky tasks’, narrowly edging out GPT-5 in early evaluations by Petri --- Anthropic’s new open-source AI auditing tool.
By Matt FosterDreamer 4: Learning to Achieve Goals from Offline Data Through Imagination Training
Researchers from DeepMind have described a new approach for teaching intelligent agents to solve complex, long-term tasks by training them exclusively on video footage rather than through direct interaction with the environment. Their new agent, called Dreamer 4, demonstrated the ability to mine diamonds playing Minecraft after being trained on videos, without ever actually playing the game.
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Hello John and Welcome to Codetown! Take a look around the site and get to know your community. There are some events coming up later on in the month so be sure to look at them and RSVP if you're interested.
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