The ESP32 S3 has WiFi but getting from a simple connection to a web client is a matter of using sockets. This is an extract from Harry Fairhead's latest book on programming the ESP32 using C and the IDF.

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If you are at all interested in the history of the computer you can't help but debate the question of who actually invented the first machine? According to a court ruling made October 19, 1973 it was John Atanasoff, inventor of the ABC.

We are currently polarized in how we think about Large Language Models. Some say that they are just overgrown autocompletes and some say that they have captured some aspects of intelligence. How well they solve problems seems to depend on what language you ask for the solution to be expressed in.

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Azul has announced that its Azul Platform Prime outperforms comparable OpenJDK distributions by as much as 37%. The company has also launched the Azul Java Performance Engineering Lab (JPEL) aimed at helping customers get the most from Azul Platform Prime.

A freely available set of workshops and talks on the essentials of LLMs, taught by practitioners. The topics include Evals, Retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), Fine-tuning etc.

Apache Lucene 10 has been released. The updated version adds a new IndexInput prefetch API, support for sparse indexing on doc values, and upgraded Snowball dictionaries resulting in improved tokenization.

Prisma Markdown is a new tool that takes the pain out of drawing entity relationship diagrams. An essential help if your design is database driven rather than code driven.

Microsoft has announced TypeScript 5.7 in beta, with improvements including stronger checks for variables that have never been initialized before use, and path rewriting for relative paths.

Invitations handwritten and signed by Charles Babbage, seminal papers by  Alan Turing and Claude Shannon, a "Blue Box" phone hacking device, a prototype Apple Macintosh and an Apple Lisa 2/10 are among items in on ongoing online auction at Bonhams, that ends on 23 October 2024.

No fewer than 37 Optimus Robots mingled with guests at last week's We, Robot event and the audience were treated to the spectacle of around seven of them performing a dance routine. Elon Musk also made several important statements about his plans to make them a commercial reality.

Microsoft has announced the open source availability of Drasi, a data processing system designed to simplify the detection of and reaction to critical events within complex event-driven infrastructures.

Julia 1.1 has been released with improvements including a new Memory type that provides a lower-level container as an alternative to Array.

Yes, they can coexist thanks to CloudNativePG, the PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes. Furthermore, if you want to try before you buy you can, thanks to the new learning environment, CNPG Playground.

Authors: John Shovic and Alan Simpson
Publisher: For Dummies
Date: April 2024
Pages: 720
ISBN: 978-1394236152
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Audience: People wanting to learn Python
Rating: 2
Reviewer: Mike James
All-in-one refers to the fact that this is seven books put together - why?

This book reveals what you can do with the EspressIf ESP32's GPIO lines together with widely used sensors, servos and motors and ADCs. Harry Fairhead uses C as the ideal choice of language to program the ESP32, ensuring that your programs are fast and efficient, and here it is used with the Espressif IoT Development Framework, ESP-IDF and VS Code, a combination which makes it simple to get started and provides a wealth of functions not found elsewhere.

This book introduces AI algorithms designed to solve complex and poorly-structured problems such as "What’s the fastest route from one place to another?" "How do you calculate the optimal price for a product?" and "How should you plant crops, allocate resources, and schedule surgeries?"

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This book considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking the reader from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari considers the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.

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