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The Bots Face Off – Or Do They? ChatGPT Versus Bard

.orgSource

That light-hearted description probably isn’t worthy of the significance of this advanced language technology’s entrance into the public market. It’s built on a neural network architecture known as a transformer, which enables it to handle complex natural language tasks effectively. Take this all with a grain of salt.

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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Hackers Explore New Territories for Cracking Your Password

Tech Soup

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. It's a quote in a fictional language from the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). Oh, memories.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled."

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