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OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update
Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS OpenDylan is a Lisp without all the parentheses – ...
The Oak Ridger on MSN1d
Ron Garret (Erann Gat): Reflections on his early Oak Ridge life
He has pursued research in robotics and artificial intelligence; written code software for outer space projects; produced a ...
Jaaved Jaaferi created his ‘Dhamaal’ look, shares ‘Boogie Woogie’ backstory
Jaaved Jaaferi revealed he designed his iconic 'Dhamaal' character’s look and voice, including the lisp and posture. On Farah ...
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Jaaved Jaaferi reveals he designed his iconic Dhamaal character himself
Jaaved Jaaferi revealed on Farah Khan’s show that he created his Dhamaal character’s look himself, completing it with a ...
Xlibre forks to the rescue – but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot
Xlibre 25.0.0.0 is out, the "Summer Solstice" release of this new FOSS X11 server forked from the X.org server. This is a ...
What We Lost With Barbara Walters
But privately, Walters had her struggles and insecurities. She lacked confidence in her looks. An unrivaled focus on her ...
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
There is no right answer and it doesn't matter, hence the abiding popularity of the question, but attempting to make that ...
Jaaved Jaaferi gave the look of his character in 'Dhamaal'
Jaaved Jaaferi revealed that he conceptualized his character in the 'Dhamaal' franchise, incorporating cues from director ...
After Months of Vocal Changes and Losing My Voice I Finally Got a Diagnosis
My voice has been my stock-in-trade nearly all my life. I performed in musicals throughout high school; in college, I earned ...
After three days with my family, I feel my childhood self returning. Why does this happen?
I found myself going quiet, retreating into my chair. The crushingly shy, passive version of myself I’d long thrown off was ...
A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins
The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different mainframe computers together across the country. Later, it evolved into the ...
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RAG evaluation series: validating the RAG performance of OpenAI’s RAG Assistant vs Google’s Vertex Search and Conversation
This is the fourth installment in a multi-part series on evaluating various RAG systems using Tonic Validate, a RAG evaluation and benchmarking platform. In this installment, we pit OpenAI's RAG Assis ...