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February 2012
There's a new tool on Codetown that lets you translate the entire site to…
January 2012
November 2011
http://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/new_java_champion_michael_levin Blog Mike Levin ::: Java Champion 2 Likes
October 2011
September 2011
Here's a recap of what happened at the JCertif 2011 conference in Brazzaville…
August 2011
The month of July was a global gathering for all Java Communities around the…
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Java 7 Launch events in Africa (photos)!!
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June 2011
March 2011
Hi folks,
It's been a while since last time I post here. I just want to share a project that I have started recently and hopefully it will benefit some of you.
In…
Blog My latest personal project 1 LikeHappy 10th year, JCertif!
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The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape. some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.
By Bruno CouriolOlmo 3 Release Provides Full Transparency Into Model Development and Training
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By Steef-Jan WiggersGrafana Unveils Smarter Logs, an MCP Server, and TraceQL Upgrades in Latest Releases
Grafana Labs has published major updates across two of its core observability products: Grafana 12.3, and Grafana Tempo 2.9. The two releases have distinct improvements in monitoring, logs, and tracing for Grafana users.
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