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My home lab taught me more than my computer science degree

I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...
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Java Holds No 3 in Tiobe Index as C# Wins 2025 Programming Language of the Year

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. li> 1. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after ...

TIOBE Index for January 2026: C Pushes Ahead as the Chase Group Shifts Again

Python stays far ahead; C strengthens at #2, Java edges past C++, C# is 2025’s winner; Delphi returns, R holds #10.
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
CMU School of Computer Science

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Meta’s Vision-Language Shift VL-JEPA Beats Bulky LLMs

VL-JEPA predicts meaning in embeddings, not words, combining visual inputs with eight Llama 3.2 layers to give faster answers ...