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Programmer's Guide To Theory - Information Theory
Mike James

So you know what a bit is – or do you? How much information does a bit carry? What is this "information" stuff anyway? The answers are, unsurprisingly, all contained in the subject called Information Theory, which, surprisingly, was invented by one man, Claude Shannon.

Learn to program the Web with Java and Spring in Udacity's newest four month Nanodegree program. Nikos Vaggalis is preparing to embark on an adventure of coding and learning in the Java Web Developer Nanodgree.

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MDN Is 15 - How Did It Reach Top Of The Docs?
29 Jul | Ian Elliot

Can you remember when MSDN was the goto for any technical information. Oh MSDN where are you now (rhetorical question). Most of the time I find, and my guess is that you find, that the very similarly named MDN is the source that most often turns up in a search for something basic or obscure.

The Linux Foundation has set up a group to bring together a number of open source projects that are working to fight COVID-19.  The Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) builds, secures, and sustains open source software to help public health authorities (PHAs) combat COVID-19 and future epidemics.

Pluralsight has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to help us enhance our machine learning skills with AWS DeepRacer. It kicks off today with a webinar with the chance to win an AWS DeepRacer.

Microsoft has released a Power BI component for React that supports both JavaScript and TypeScript and can be used to embed analytics in a React web application.

IEEE Spectrum has an interactive app that ranks the popularity of dozens of programming languages, well 55 to be precise. It has just published its rankings for 2020, the 7th year of this exercise. And if you don't like the results you can tweak them with your own custom settings.

Before you start fantasizing about ants sitting round a table planning how to route vehicles I'd better tell you that its ant algorithms that are being charged with the task, not the real thing. Of course, these are still ant-inspired so the title is accurate.

You probably know who Claude Shannon was and what he did, but apparently he is little known in wider world. Hence a new movie "The Bit Player" which presents him to a wider audience is welcome - no matter how good or bad it is, which has now become available on Amazon.

The MariaDB Corp team has updated SkySQL, its version of MariaDB as a fully managed database-as-a-service. The updated version now supports the most recent MariaDB Enterprise version, and has a new Workload Analysis tool.

COBOL Programming with VSCode is a course for beginners that looks at the language that introduced computing to business over a decade ago with the highly popular VSCode editor. Why is IBM doing this? and why now?

A competition in which participants build natural language processing models that take a description in English and convert the description to its corresponding Bash syntax. The NLC2CMD competition is being run by IBM.

Google has launched Chrome 84 with improvements including the Web OTP API, Web Animations API, and changes to SameSite cookies, along with the removal of older versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS).