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‘The Magic of Code’ Review: The Book of Binary
To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.
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Samuel Arbesman: The Magic of Code review - the spark ages
The slightly overwrought subtitle gives a good indication how computer enthusiast Sam Arbesman treats his subject. Software, ...
Study: Meta’s Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
Specifically, the paper estimates that Llama 3.1 70B has memorized 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time. (I’ll unpack how this ...
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Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students
Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a ...
From Amazon to memory lane: This AI writes your book so you don’t have to
This AI-powered platform helps you create nonfiction books up to 300,000 words using top-tier models like ChatGPT, Claude, ...