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Ho scritto parecchi articoli sulle calcolatrici HP Saturn in logica RPN, con un misto di nostalgia e amarezza. Scopro oggi che in realtà c'è ancora una calcolatrice in produzione, grazie a questo articolo di TheRegister che documenta un problema di calcolo dell'interesse composto, che affligge alcuni modelli.
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Sono appena entrato in possesso di una Nissan QASHQAI Xtronic Mild Hybrid, e ne sono rimasto favorevolmente colpito, tanto da volervi fare una piccola review spontanea.
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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.
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Sometimes you need to fix a production defect. To do it, you need to mirror a specific set of data, and do a test to proof the bug and then fix it.
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This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.
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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.
Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.
At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)
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Nel modo della IT, possiamo oramai dire che l'Open Source e' una pietra angolare dello sviluppo software. Non tutto il software e' in standard GPLv3, ma in ogni caso molto di esso e' in licenza MIT/BSD-3 super open (forse troppo).
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