Programming

Wait Chapel expands programming, strengthens community

“To look out across Wait Chapel on a Sunday morning and see multiple races and ethnicities and choral students and football players all in the same sanctuary together made me think we were getting something right,” Walton said of the Family Weekend service at which he preached . Christopher Gilliam Sacred music is an instrumental part of the chapel. Before joining Wake Forest in 2020, Christopher Gilliam, director of choral activities and an assistant professor in the Department of Music, directed the Winston-Salem Symphony and Symphony Chorus in a 2019 performance of the Mozart Requiem in Wait Chapel. He likes…
Programming

Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics | MIT News

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly useful for programming and robotics tasks, but for more complicated reasoning problems, the gap between these systems and humans looms large. Without the ability to learn new concepts like humans do, these systems fail to form good abstractions — essentially, high-level representations of complex concepts that skip less-important details — and thus sputter when asked to do more sophisticated tasks. Luckily, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have discovered a treasure trove of abstractions within natural language. In three papers to be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations…
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The top programming languages ​​to learn if you want to get into AI

It’s safe to say that the age of generative AI is well and truly upon us, rapidly changing the world of work as we know it. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs Report, more than 75% of companies are looking to adopt technologies like AI in the next five years, so it’s no surprise that career opportunities in the space are exploding, especially for developers. But which programming language is leading the way? Python is without a doubt the most buzzed-about language for AI development. However, a decent programmer can work with AI in almost any…
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Oracle (ORCL) Announces Latest Programming Language Java 22

Oracle ORCL recently announced the release of Java 22, the newest version of the widely used programming language. This update brings a slew of improvements focused on making developers’ lives easier and their code more efficient. Java 22, also known as Oracle JDK 22, packs in several enhancements across different aspects of the language and its development kit. These improvements touch upon the Java language itself, its APIs, performance and the tools bundled within the Java Development Kit (JDK). Among the highlights of JDK 22 are enhancements from various projects within the OpenJDK community. These include language improvements from Project…