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Hello all, I am “very” new to Java and fairly new to programming in general. I have been reading the “Head First Java” book and while doing one of the examples came across an observation. I created…Continue
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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.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Now available in beta, Neptune is a conversational AI agent designed to act like an AI platform engineer, handling the provisioning, wiring, and configuration of the cloud services needed to run a containerized app. Neptune is both language and cloud-agnostic, with support for AWS, GCP, and Azure.
By Sergio De Simone
Meta released details about its Generative Ads Model (GEM), a foundation model designed to improve ads recommendation across its platforms. The model addresses core challenges in recommendation systems (RecSys) by processing billions of daily user-ad interactions where meaningful signals such as clicks and conversions are very sparse.
By Vinod Goje
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By Michael Redlich
IBM Research has released CUGA (Configurable Generalist Agent) on Hugging Face Spaces, making its enterprise-oriented agent framework easier to evaluate with open models and real workflows. The move positions CUGA as a practical alternative to brittle, tightly coupled agent frameworks that often struggle with tool misuse, long-horizon reasoning, and recovery from failure.
By Robert Krzaczyński
AWS has released Amazon ECS Express Mode, bringing a simplified process to deploying containerised web applications and APIs. Express Mode lets users deploy production-ready services in one shot, bypassing the usual detail required around ancillary requirements such as IAM roles, load-balancers and scaling.
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