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New Geekbench AI benchmark can test the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Performance test comes out of beta as NPUs become standard equipment in PCs. Primate Labs releasesGeekbench AI, which measures both speed and accuracy of AI workloads on CPU, GPU, or NPU when compatible. The app supports various AI frameworks across different platforms and is available for free with..

New Geekbench AI benchmark can test the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
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Passing part of a medical licensing exam doesnโ€™t make ChatGPT a good doctor

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 ..

Passing part of a medical licensing exam doesnโ€™t make ChatGPT a good doctor
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Machine Unlearning: Why Teaching AI To Forget Is Crucial

Machine unlearning enables AI models to โ€œforgetโ€ 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..

Machine Unlearning: Why Teaching AI To Forget Is Crucial
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Core Python developer suspended for three months

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..

Core Python developer suspended for three months
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"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase

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 ..

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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

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..

Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
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Go 1.23 is released

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...

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Building a cost-effective logging platform using Clickhouse for petabyte scale

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..

Building a cost-effective logging platform using Clickhouse for petabyte scale
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The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless

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..

The Sneaky Costs of Scaling Serverless
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Dapr v1.14 is now available

Dapr v1.14 introduces a new Jobs API for scheduling tasks, enhancing automation and reliability. The alpha Rust-SDK now supports the Jobs API, and a new Scheduler service can manage these jobs on both self-hosted and Kubernetes environments. New features include namespacing for multi-tenancy, dynami..

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