ChatGPT was tested by Canadian medical professionals using Medscape case data for diagnostic purposes. It was found to be inaccurate in 76 out of 150 cases. Specialized medical AIs, like Google's AMIE, have outperformed human doctors in diagnosing specific diseases due to their tailored training on .. read more  

Machine unlearning enables AI models to “forget” specific data without retraining from scratch, aiding in data privacy and intellectual property protection. Current methods include exact unlearning, which retrains models from modified datasets, and approximate unlearning, which minimizes data influe.. read more  

The Python Steering Council suspended core developer Tim Peters for three months for Code of Conduct violations, including defending reverse racism/sexism and making light of sensitive topics. The council cited Peters' behavior as creating an unwelcoming environment and causing significant disruptio.. read more  

The writer's first software job involved working on a legacy system with a polluted database. SQL Server's column limit was exceeded, leading to the creation of multiple interconnected tables. The system also featured a login dependency on a manually filled calendar table and daily data replication .. read more  

Markus, a solo developer, exclusively uses Go for all his projects due to its versatility, resulting in less context switching and allowing him to deepen his knowledge in one language. He believes this focused approach enhances productivity and career options in the vast world of software developmen.. read more  

The Go team has released Go 1.23, which includes language changes such as range expressions in a "for-range" loop supporting user-defined iterators and preview support for generic type aliases... read more  

Zomato's production generated over 50 TB of uncompressed logs per day, peaking at 150 million logs per minute. To handle this, they transitioned from Elasticsearch to Clickhouse, leveraging its horizontal scalability and low latency. Custom Golang workers efficiently batched log insertions, using AW.. read more  

The 11ty Screenshots API, using headless Chromium and Puppeteer, encountered high costs on Vercel's Pro Tier, projecting ~$2000 annually due to 1276 GB-Hrs usage. Migrating to AWS, despite a more complex manual setup, reduced the projected usage to 101 GB-Hrs, making it a cost-effective solution. AW.. read more