Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They cover Python’s pivotal moments and rise alongside the internet, the increased adoption from transitions like Python 2 to Python 3, and the significant role Python plays in academia and data science […]

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3 Reasons to Buy Carnival Stock Like There’s No Tomorrow

Shares of this leading cruise line operator have more than doubled in the past 12 months. Carnival (CCL -2.27%) continues sailing in the right direction, something its shareholders have become extremely optimistic about. That’s not a surprise, given that the cruise line business was decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the company is on much […]

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AI Safety Needs Social Scientists

The goal of long-term artificial intelligence (AI) safety is to ensure that advanced AI systems are reliably aligned with human values — that they reliably do things that people want them to do.Roughly by human values we mean whatever it is that causes people to choose one option over another in each case, suitably corrected by reflection, […]

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Battlefield 6 reaches record half a million+ concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

After what can only be described as a dream rollout, EA launched the open beta for Battlefield 6 this weekend for only 2 days. Right now, it’s sitting at over 500,000 concurrent players with a peak of 521,079 players that it hit just an hour ago. Those are the best numbers for any Battlefield ever, […]

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