Ben and Ryan talk about the work that earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics and how it might make computers way faster. Plus: California’s efforts to transform how math is taught, Unity’s new fee structure, and the trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/06/subatomic-speed-math-misadventures-and-the-biggest-fraud-trial-in-history/
Highlighting one of the interesting discussions going on in our Collectives. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/05/open-discussion-what-can-be-done-to-reduce-infrastructure-as-code-complexity/
From studying music to coding it. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/04/how-an-algo-raver-stays-in-key-boards/
Ben and Ryan settle in for a wide-ranging discussion about whether large language models know anything, whether language ability is unique to humans, and what the end of the Hollywood writers’ strike says about the future of AI-generated content. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/02/usb-c-for-all-php-4eva-and-what-do-llms-actually-know-if-anything/
When all the other languages go one way, time to change direction. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/02/no-surprises-on-any-system-q-and-a-with-loris-cro-of-zig/
Ben and Ryan talk with Lukas Fittl, founder and CEO of pganalyze, which provides in-depth Postgres database monitoring and optimization. They talk about why Lukas considers himself a founder-CEO by title but engineer by trade, what’s important to understand about SQL, and the role of AI in database optimization. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/28/how-to-write-high-performance-sql-for-your-postgres-database/
On this sponsored episode, Ben, Cassidy, and Ryan are joined by Luyang Zou, who is a creative coder, artist, architect, and Ambassador for today’s sponsor, Logitech. They chat about the creates amazing immersive spaces that he creates with a keyboard and mouse the process (and Processing), and what software and hardware play a role. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/27/being-creative-with-math-the-immersive-artist-who-traded-a-sketchpad-for-a-keyboard/
From Angular JS to Raspberry Pi, from React to Prompt Engineering, our community has been asking questions and sharing knowledge that helps the entire world build better. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/26/celebrating-15-years-of-stack-overflow/
This is part two of our conversation with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, Clang, and LLVM and CEO/cofounder of Modular AI. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/25/like-python-for-ai-developers/
Go behind the scenes with how we designed our new search. https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/09/25/behind-the-scenes-with-overflowai-search/
