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JavaScript needs more money

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 17 June, 2024 edit

There isn’t nearly enough money in open source today. We can complain about venture capitalists distorting open source licensing, wring our hands about sustainability , and fret over how much foundation execs like Mozilla’s make , but the real issue isn’t that we have too much money sloshing around GitHub repositories. It’s that there isn’t more. Much, much more.

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Značky: #JavaScript, #Rozne

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LlamaIndex review: Easy context-augmented LLM applications

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 17 June, 2024 edit

“Turn your enterprise data into production-ready LLM applications,” blares the LlamaIndex home page in 60 point type. OK, then. The subhead for that is “LlamaIndex is the leading data framework for building LLM applications.” I’m not so sure that it’s the leading data framework, but I’d certainly agree that it’s a leading data framework for building with large language models , along with LangChain and Semantic Kernel , about which more later.

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How to choose a data analytics and machine learning platform

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 17 June, 2024 edit

Analytics platforms have evolved considerably over the last decade, adding capabilities that extend far beyond the last generation’s on-premises reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools. Modernized data visualization, dashboarding, analytics, and machine learning platforms serve different business use cases, end-user personas, and data complexities.

While analytics platforms have reached mainstream adoption, many businesses in lagging industries want to develop their first dashboards and predictive analytics capabilities. They recognize that managing analytics in spreadsheets is slow, error-prone, and hard to scale, while using reporting solutions tied to one enterprise system can be limiting without integrations to other data sources.

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Značky: #Analytics, #Rozne

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Rust stabilizes inline const expressions

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 15 June, 2024 edit

The Rust Team has released Rust 1.79, an update to the memory safe programming language that stabilizes both inline const expressions and the associated item bounds syntax.

Unveiled June 13 , Rust 1.79 can be installed by running rustup update stable .

With Rust 1.79, const { … } blocks now are stable in the expression position, thus permitting explicitly entering a const context without needing extra declarations. Unlike const items, inline consts can make use of in-scope generics and have their type inferred rather than explicitly written, making them particularly useful for inline code snippets. This improvement makes code more succinct and easier to read, the Rust Team said.

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Python pick: Monkeytype automates type hints

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 14 June, 2024 edit

What's new this (half-)month in Python and elsewhere? First up is Monkeytype, an Instagram-created library with a somewhat silly name. What's not silly is using it to add type hints automatically to untyped Python code. We also have five lesser-known tools for data science, a chance to go feet-first into Django 5 without getting swamped, and another look at Python 3.13, whose second beta has arrived. Sadly, you still gotta compile it from source to try out the bleeding-edge goodies.

Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld

Auto-generate Python type hints with Monkeytype
Sick of those no-type-hinted-Python-code blues? Monkeytype sweeps them away with automatically generated type hints.

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Značky: #Rozne, #Python

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Does AI make us dependent on Big Tech?

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 14 June, 2024 edit

European banking executives are increasingly concerned about the growing dependence of big U.S. tech firms on integrated artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. Substantial computing power is needed for AI, and many banks believe they will struggle to operate AI independently. They fear a shift towards “Big Tech” and “Big Cloud” due to AI adoption requirements.

These concerns were widely discussed at a recent fintech conference in Amsterdam . I wish I had been there to remind them that they have direct control of the technology they deploy, and large companies and cloud providers don’t have a monopoly on AI. My best advice would be to calm down and remain objective enough to recognize there’s a reasonable path forward.

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Microsoft finalizes .NET MAUI extension for Visual Studio Code

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 13 June, 2024 edit

Microsoft has made its Visual Studio Code extension for .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) generally available, taking it out of preview.

Announced June 12 and available from the Visual Studio Marketplace , the .NET MAUI extension for VS Code provides tools for building cross-platform apps with C# and XAML. The extension is built on top of the C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, with these tools providing Solution Explorer, C# Hot Reload, C# IntelliSense, and other capabilities. Partnered with these other extensions, the .NET MAUI extension adds XAML IntelliSense and XAML Hot Reload and the ability to target desktop and mobile devices.

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Microsoft Fabric evolves from data lake to application platform

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 13 June, 2024 edit

If there’s one thing a modern business needs, it’s data—as much of it as possible. Starting with data warehouses and now with data lakes, we’re using on-premises and cloud tools to manage and analyze that data, putting it in shape to deliver necessary business insights.

Data is increasingly important today, as it’s now used to train and fine-tune custom AI models, or to provide essential grounding for existing AI applications. Microsoft’s Fabric is a hosted analytics platform that builds on top of existing data tools like Azure Synapse, so it’s not surprising that Microsoft used its AI-focused BUILD 2024 event to unveil new features that are targeted at supporting the at-scale analytics and data requirements of modern AI applications .

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Značky: #Analytics, #Rozne

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4 highlights from EDB Postgres AI

pubsub.slavino.sk / infoworldcom • 13 June, 2024 edit

35% of enterprise leaders will consider Postgres for their next project, based on this research conducted by EDB, which also revealed that out of this group, the great majority believe that AI is going mainstream in their organization. Add to this, for the first time ever, analytical workloads have begun to surpass transactional workloads .

Enterprises see the potential of Postgres to fundamentally transform the way they use and manage data, and they see AI as a huge opportunity and advantage. But the diverse data teams within these organizations face increasing fragmentation and complexity when it comes to their data. To operationalize data for AI apps, they demand better observability and control across the data estate, not to mention a solution that works seamlessly across clouds.

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Značky: #Database, #Analytics, #Rozne, #PostgreSQL