Programming and Education
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[Repeat] Chris ☛ Programming Apprenticeships
I was reminded of programming. So half an hour later when my son (age four) sat down next to me as I was trying to refactor code, I started describing to him what happened in my head, and it got interesting!
Before refactoring, we wanted to write a test to verify that we didn’t accidentally change the existing behaviour of the method we were refactoring. That was easy to explain. It should also be said that we were working on the kind of legacy code nobody really knows what it’s doing, and nobody wants to pay anyone to figure out either, so we were trying to get by with reading as little of the code in the underlying system as possible.
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Federal News Network ☛ Zero trust for weapons systems will be a ‘heavy lift’ for DoD
While the mandate for the military services and defense agencies to achieve the target zero trust architecture by 2027 doesn’t include weapon systems such as tanks or aircraft, senior officials believe that IT systems supporting weapon platforms should be subject to zero trust requirements.
“There are a good number of support systems that support those weapon systems and are essentially IT systems just like our normal networks and computers. We do believe that those should be covered because they’re part of the NIPR and SIPR landscape,” David McKeown, DoD’s chief information security officer, said during the DoD Zero Trust Symposium Wednesday.
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Python
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Earthly ☛ Cosine Similarity and Text Embeddings In Python with OpenAI
Thankfully, with the available ML libraries and the OpenAI embedding API, I can use text embeddings and cosine similarity to find related blog posts in a couple of lines of Python. What are those? Well let me show you how this all works. It’s not that complicated and by the end you’ll be able to understand how text embedding can be used to find related documents.
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Education
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ NYCBUG 20 years, tonight
George Rosamond is presenting on the 20th anniversary of I think the longest-lived BUG, NYCBUG, tonight. Go if you are near (and RSVP so they can let you in), but it’s also going to be streamed.
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