Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
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Agile Is a Tainted Term
Agile is a tainted term Skip to main content pcloadletter Top level navigation menu 16 February 2024 Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn’t attempting to teach or reconcile. I’m not going to talk about the difference between agile and Agile™ nor will I try to convince you of my […]
DiskClick: Ever wanted to hear old hard drive sounds
Ever wanted to hear Old Hard drive sounds but don’t want to go find a old pc or don’t wanna get a old slow Clunker Hard drive. Well Fear not this program will let you emulate anything you want from a Floppy drive to a Rickroll. This Program uses your C drive to make noise […]
Automated Unit Test Improvement Using Large Language Models at Meta
Abstract:This paper describes Meta’s TestGen-LLM tool, which uses LLMs to automatically improve existing human-written tests. TestGen-LLM verifies that its generated test classes successfully clear a set of filters that assure measurable improvement over the original test suite, thereby eliminating problems due to LLM hallucination. We describe the deployment of TestGen-LLM at Meta test-a-thons for the […]
Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows (2018)
Losing weight is, for most people, the easy part. The bigger challenge is trying to keep it off for more than a year. New research helps explain why people in this second stage are so much more prone to failure. In a nutshell, people who have shed a significant chunk of their weight are hungrier […]
Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
Enlarge Senate HELP Committee When big pharmaceutical companies are confronted over their exorbitant pricing of prescription drugs in the US, they often retreat to two well-worn arguments: One, that the high drug prices cover costs of researching and developing new drugs, a risky and expensive endeavor, and two, that middle managers—pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), to […]
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80B
The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months. OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly tripling its valuation in less than 10 months, according to three people with knowledge of the deal. The company would sell existing shares in a so-called […]
Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline’s chatbot
Canada’s largest airline has been ordered to pay compensation after its chatbot gave a customer inaccurate information, misleading him into buying a full-price ticket. Air Canada came under further criticism for later attempting to distance itself from the error by claiming that the bot was “responsible for its own actions”. Amid a broader push by […]
GPlates: Open-source software for interactive visualisation of plate tectonics
Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R. J., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Pfaffelmoser, T., Seton, M., Russell, S. H. J. ,Zahirovic S. (2018). GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 2243-2261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007584 Mather, B. R., Müller, R. D., Zahirovic, S., Cannon, J., Chin, M., Ilano, L., Wright, N. […]
Coding in Vision Pro
Exploring Spatial Computing Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance and see the lake calm, with subtle waves and some mist in the distance. Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging […]