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Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

Creating a degree19odd-power polynomial with a linear coefficient of-19is not your usual algebra homework. Get cozy withT19(x), because factorization demands finesse here. Aim to break it down into at least three stubbornly irreducible pieces. The trick? Jugglingnon-linear factorsto dodge any slip i..

Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
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OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 models can process a million tokens and solve coding problems better than ever

OpenAI's new GPT-4.1 family enhances coding abilities at a lower cost, outperforming predecessors and offering up to one million tokens of context processing. The move challenges competitors with more affordable models tailored to diverse enterprise needs...

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What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?

Picking the right AI model forGitHub Copilotis like matchmaking. It's about the project's quirks, and balancing razor-sharp accuracy with processing muscle...

What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?
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Microsoft AI CEO: ‘It’s Smarter to Be 6 Months Behind’ — Here’s Why

Microsoftplays it cool with an "off-frontier" AI strategy, sidestepping heavyweights likeOpenAI. It's a cost-cutting, reliability-boosting move. Even with deep pockets sunk intoOpenAI,they're building pint-sized brainiacs with theirPhi project. The grand plan? Stand-alone strength by 2030...

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Gemini 2.5 Flash with ‘thinking budget’ rolling out to devs, Gemini app

Gemini 2.5 Flashbursts into the scene with a sparkling new feature: a "thinking budget." This lets developers fine-tune token-based reasoning anywhere from 0 to a whopping 24,576, cranking up accuracy without gouging your pockets. Catch it in preview onGoogle AI StudioandVertex AI. The model handles..

Gemini 2.5 Flash with ‘thinking budget’ rolling out to devs, Gemini app
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The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos

ChatGPT's hot-off-the-press models, o3 and the nimble o4-mini, have a sneaky new trick: they eyeball images and call out locations, which, let’s face it,freaks some privacy advocates out.The real gossip, though? O3 has a knack for naming places with a flair for detail. It even nailed a Williamsburg ..

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos
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Why are AI companies so bad at naming their models?

GPT-4o, Llama-4, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Why can’t AI companies come up with compelling model names?..

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An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System

3FSfrom DeepSeek dazzles with slick tricks, includingCRAQfor ironclad consistency and a cleverChunkEnginebuilt inRust. It sprints through scalable reads, but gets tripped up bywrite latency. InZipfian workloads, that bottleneck might just drive you bananas...

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Building a resilient DNS client for web-scale infrastructure

DCLflips DNS on its head withadaptive timeouts,exponential backoff, andreal-time config updates. Result? Downtime hits the floor, fault tolerance flexes its muscles. DNS visibility and client-side metrics accelerate alert sharpness, fine-tune infrastructure tweaks, and kick old-school limits to the ..

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Lurking Variables: How Hidden Factors Can Mislead Your Analysis

NebuloSky's VM panic spike: not a botched kernel rollout, but the chaos of adding 1,000,000 platform Y VMs. Classic lurking variable mistake.Pro tip from Gen Z's crystal ball: dissect data by potential influences to sidestep this mess next time...

Lurking Variables: How Hidden Factors Can Mislead Your Analysis