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- I live in Winter Park and I am new to IT- looking to network with everyone!
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Welcome to Codetown!
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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Thariq Shihipar, engineering lead for the Claude Code team, recently published a blog post (Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML) arguing that HTML, with its richer visualizations, color, and interactivity, improves the productivity of human-agent communication in many settings, especially when compared to default Markdown outputs.
By Bruno CouriolGoogle OpenRL is an Experimental Self-hosted API for LLM Post-Training Fine-tuning
Google's GKE Labs has introduced OpenRL, an open-source project that provides a self-hosted API for post-training and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on standard Kubernetes clusters.
By Sergio De SimoneAI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: From Code Review to PRD Governance
Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initiatives from Uber, DoorDash, and Cloudflare highlight a shift toward AI-driven governance layers that evaluate engineering artifacts before implementation while preserving human oversight across the development pipeline.
By Leela KumiliPresentation: Rules for Understanding Language Models
Naomi Saphra discusses 5 rules governing language model behavior, breaking down why LLMs act like populations rather than individuals. She explains how tokenization creates strange semantic blind spots and highlights the mechanics of sycophancy, showing how models leverage subtle data associations to match user biases and demographics - even guessing political views based on favorite sports teams.
By Naomi SaphraArticle: Beyond CLEAN and MVP: Architecting an Offline-first Reactive Data Layer in Android
With the Reactive Data Layer Architecture (RDLA), you establish a clear boundary between public data APIs and private, framework-specific data-source implementations. Your presentation layer operates in a purely reactive manner, observing data changes rather than procedurally querying them. RDLA also simplifies testing by encouraging you to program to interfaces and use clean seeding patterns.
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Hi MC and welcome to Codetown! Here's what you get: a page (this page!), a place to blog, post photos, videos, and a bunch of interest groups you surf to. Everything is free except advertising. You can friend people on Codetown and send PM's. There's chat, too. So, if you see someone you know online, you can chat with them. The OrlandoJUG meets every 4th Thursday in various places including the wonderful DeVry on Millennia Blvd, the ultra cool Canvs on Church Street and sometimes at Eden Bar just down the road from us in Winter Park. I'll be at www.Solidcon.com next week when OJUG meets. Enjoy Codetown, have fun at Veredus and you're in the right place to learn a lot right here. All the best, Michael