by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college. His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him on a career trajectory...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI field. Chief Java...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 18, 2024 | Cloud
Concerns about C++ memory safety soon could be in the past. The C++ Alliance, a charity whose mission is to make the C++ language accessible and useful, is working to add memory safety features to C++, through its Safe C++ Extensions proposal. The alliance intends to...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 17, 2024 | Cloud
Generative AI depends on data to build responses to user queries. Training large language models (LLMs) uses huge volumes of data—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 used the CommonCrawl data set, which stood at 570 gigabytes and 400 billion tokens. But these data sets, while...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 16, 2024 | Cloud
Scared of flying but don’t think twice about a lengthy road trip? Consider this: NOVA reports that your odds of a fatal car crash are 1 in 5000, but the chance of perishing in a plane is just 1 in 11 million. Despite air travel being 2,200 times safer than a car, many...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 16, 2024 | Cloud
This past week I spent time with some IT executives at a Fortune 500 company. Despite years of big spending on AWS, the company made a commitment years ago to switch to Microsoft Azure. Today they’re still on AWS… and Azure… and private data centers. Our conversation...
