Recursion who needs it? This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind which explores what it is to be a programmer.

To mark the 50th anniversary of CP/M, the first personal computer operating system to achieve commercial success, we delve into our archive for the history of Gary Kildall, an important influencer during the early days of the microcomputer revolution.

Layoffs, across the board from major tech companies to struggling small businesses, are constantly in the news. Today Udacity has announced a special offer to help the recently unemployed professionals in the U.S. gain new skills that could help them land a new job.

There are many reports that Google has removed people from its Python, Dart and Flutter teams and possibly more. What does this say about relying on Google as a source of technology for your projects?

OpenSilver 2.2 has been released with the addition of a LightSwitch Compatibility Pack designed to provide a way to run legacy Visual Studio LightSwitch applications on modern browsers. The open-source alternative to Silverlight is capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications.

A free, self-paced course about Cybersecurity 101 is on offer by Microsoft's Cloud Security Advocates. It's a 30+ lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices.

Google has released Gemini 1.5 Pro with improvements including Native Audio Understanding, System Instructions, and a JSON mode.

Node.js 22 has been released with support for requiring ESM graphs, a stable WebSocket client, and updates of the V8 JavaScript engine.

The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition which started in March 2023. Its overarching aim is to read the contents of physically impenetrable Herculaneum Papyri burnt by fire and then buried under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

Grow with Google, in collaboration with MIT RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education), is launching a no-cost Generative AI for Educators course.

JetBrains has launched a campaign celebrating software developers worldwide. The campaign is run on behalf of JetBrains IDEs, the company's range of integrated development environment products.

Spring Academy Pro is now freely available and Spring Builders is a new meeting point to discuss everything Spring related.

Pulumi has added new infrastructure lifecycle management features to Pulumi Deployments, its deployments and workflow product.

Author:  Sinan Ozdemir
Publisher:  Addison-Wesley
Pages: 288
ISBN: 978-0138199197
Audience: LLM Beginners
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James
We all want to know about LLMs, but how deep should you go?

Originally published in 2017 with the subtitle "The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters" this book exposes a cult of anti-expertise sentiment coinciding with anti-intellectualism. Tom Nichols addresses how while technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before, these gains have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues.

This book takes an in-depth look at memory management, asynchronous programming, and the core Rust skills. Brenden Matthews covers productivity techniques for Rust testing, tooling, and project management. He also shows how to sidestep common Rust pitfalls and navigate quirks you might never have seen before, along with suggesting strategies for navigating the evolving Rust ecosystem.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has more than 100,000 members, including trailblazing women who created ACM-W (ACM's Committee on Women in Computing) in 1993. This book, in the ACM's "Rendering History" series was published in celebration of ACM-W's 30th birthday. In it Gloria Childress Townsend explores the history of ACM-W.