Government agencies are awash in documents. Some of them, like Bureau Labor Statistics (BLS), turn to machine learning to help improve and streamline various processes.

Chuck Data makes it possible for data engineers to embrace “vibe coding,” so they can use natural language prompts to delegate these manual coding tasks to an autonomous AI assistant.

This Golay code implementation is capable of correcting three-bit errors in each 24-bit block, with 12 bits available for payload. That’s what the numbers in those brackets mean.

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Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par ...

Opening the Door on No-Code/Code-Friendly Platforms With the realization that writing SQL, R, or Python code is no longer sufficient for quickly delivering business insights, enterprises must turn to ...

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes "I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Data and Code for "Trade, Structural Transformation and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869-1914" (Pablo Fajgelbaum and Stephen Redding), Journal of Political Economy, 130 (5), 1249-1318, 2022.