Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86

He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to ...
Hackaday

Automatic Tutorial Generator Is Perhaps The Best-Case For Vibe Coding

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...
InfoQ

Oracle's OpenJDK Bans Generative AI Contributions While Oracle's GraalVM Allows Them

Two related, Oracle-backed projects published opposing policies on open-source contributions created with generative AI: The ...

Google's DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

Google's open-source diffusion language model generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects, hitting 4x speed on one GPU ...

I've tested so many desktop AI tools, but Hermes with Ollama is my new favorite - here's why

I've tested so many desktop AI tools, but Hermes with Ollama is my new favorite - here's why ...
IEEE

Gaussian source coding with spherical codes

A fixed-rate shape-gain quantizer for the memoryless Gaussian source is proposed. The shape quantizer is constructed from wrapped spherical codes that map a sphere packing in /spl Ropf//sup k-1/ onto ...