When I was new to programming, I focused way too much on learning the syntax, especially the brackets, the semicolons, and ...

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Some Canadian universities have free online courses that you can take now. You don't have to be a current student or have any ...

So, you want to get better at coding, huh? It’s a journey, for sure. While online tutorials are great for quick fixes, sometimes you just need to sit down with a good book. These aren’t just about ...

Explore zero-one integer programming, a key method in logical problem-solving, using binary choices for optimal decisions in finance, production, and more.

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy HelpAge International’s 2024–25 Learning Report explores how ageism interacts with other forms of ...

Curious about how artificial intelligence can write software? This engaging guide explores the growing phenomenon of AI-driven code generation, what empowers these tools, their benefits, potential ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

While we’d like to think that we intuitively understand language (we are after all, the “creators” of language), an analysis of how LLMs apparently “create” “meaning” suggests otherwise. Understanding ...