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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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QCon San Francisco 2024 Day 2: Shift-Left, GenAI, Engineering Productivity, Languages/Paradigms
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By Michael RedlichRise of Python, Generative AI, and Global Developer Communities: Insights from GitHub Octoverse 2024
Recently, the GitHub Octoverse 2024 report revealed that Python has surpassed JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, primarily driven by its dominance in fields like data science, machine learning, and scientific computing. Generative AI continued its significant prominence in software development, with a substantial increase in contributions to generative AI projects on GitHub.
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The 18th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day One, scheduled on November 18th, 2024, included a keynote address by Khawaja Shams and presentations from four conference tracks.
By Michael RedlichLLaVA-CoT Shows How to Achieve Structured, Autonomous Reasoning in Vision Language Models
Chinese researchers fine-tuned Llama-3.2-11B to improve its ability to solve multimodal reasoning problems by going beyond the direct-response or chain-of-thought (coT) approaches to reason step by step in a structured way. Named LLava-CoT, the new model outperforms its base model and proves better than larger models, including Gemini-1.5-pro, GPT-4o-mini, and Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct.
By Sergio De SimoneMicrosoft Announces General Availability of Fabric API for GraphQL
Microsoft has launched Fabric API for GraphQL, moving the data access layer from public preview to general availability (GA). This release introduces several enhancements, including support for Azure SQL and Fabric SQL databases, saved credential authentication, detailed monitoring tools, and integration with CI/CD workflows.
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