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The open Battery Data Format standard for battery testing data enables researchers, designers, and manufacturers, as well as ...

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a ...

People spend huge amounts of time and effort making files on their computers. Letters, resumes, recipes, financial spreadsheets, inventory reports and family photos are all files that can be very ...

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...

I am hearing from readers that there may be a movement afoot for me to rename my column because being a fan of Senior Moments makes them feel old. It’s all in perspective, of course. One reader named ...

Standard RAG pipelines treat documents as flat strings of text. They use "fixed-size chunking" (cutting a document every 500 characters). This works for prose, but it destroys the logic of technical ...

In some ways, data and its quality can seem strange to people used to assessing the quality of software. There’s often no observable behaviour to check and little in the way of structure to help you ...

The improved AI agent access in Xcode has made vibe coding astoundingly simple for beginners, to a level where some apps can ...

As tools like large language models become ubiquitous in fields ranging from software engineering to data analysis, a fundamental question emerges regarding the long-term cost of our new-found efficie ...