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 | Linux has come a long way, but it's still primarily a server OS, correct? How many of you linux fanboys and girls use it as your primary operating system for daily tasks? How does it compare to Windows or macOS in terms of productivity and overall user experience?  |
| | Since this is a discussion forum, I dare use it to announce a new release of the best (IMO) Java open source discussion software, JForum. There isn't much new in terms of functionality or bug fixes, but it now runs natively on JakartaEE 10 - meaning you need Tomcat 10.1 … |
| | I used to be a long-time moderator and administrator on JavaRanch/CodeRanch, where I got to know Tim and Ron who recently introduced themselves here. Over there I was heavily involved in moving the Ranch from UBB to [JForum](https://sourceforge.net/projects/jforum2/); I'm a committer to the open source version to this day. The … |
| | Hi all, My team and I is making an open-source library for running AI models on the phone. We are planning to create a very simple SDK which will allow you to download a model and use it on your phone. We plan to release an initial version in a … |
| | ## **Introduction** > The McCharts component library is developed based on Hongmeng ArkTS syntax and supports API 9 and above. The chart component has been open sourced. Everyone can participate, whether they are new or experienced, to learn from each other, develop more component libraries, and enrich the ArkTS ecosystem. … |
| | **English Translation:** Hello everyone, I’m Chen Yang. It’s been a while since my last update. The main reason is my busy schedule with my full-time job, leaving me little time for writing. Additionally, I’ve spent the past six months learning HarmonyOS ArkTS, and now that I’ve reached a semi-proficient level, … |
| | This project is a cross-platform Kafka GUI client. A star would be appreciated to support the open-source effort by the author. Thank you! # Features of Kafka-King * View the list of cluster nodes, dynamically configure broker and topic settings. * Support for consumer clients to consume messages from specified … |
 | **AI policy theorist Demetrius Floudas introduces a novel era classification for the AI epoch and reveals the hidden dangers of AGI, predicting the potential obsolescence of humanity. In retort, he proposes a provocative International Control Treaty.**  ## About Demetrius A. Floudas ##  **[Demetrius A. Floudas](http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/131770)** is a transnational …  |
| | i want to create table in ms acces database during run time......... Dim myConnection As ADODB.Connection Dim Conn As String Dim vtblNametxt As String Private Sub cratblebtn_Click() vtblNametxt = tblNametxt.Text myConnection.Execute ("create table " & vtblNametxt & " (id varchar2(3),pname varchar2(20), qtyp number(4));") End Sub Private Sub Form_Load() Set myConnection … |
 | Open-source LLMs are gaining significant traction due to their ability to match the performance of advanced proprietary LLMs. These models are free to use and allow users to modify their source code or fine-tune them on their own systems, making them highly versatile for various applications. Alibaba's [Qwen](https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions/generative-ai/qwen?_p_lc=1) and Meta's … |
 | For programmers who do not like to use IDEs, it may not be convenient to find specific strings in files of a specified type. Using standard grep is an option, but specifying file types can be quite cumbersome. We can solve this with a small script. First, use find to … |
| | On September 25, 2024, Meta released [the Llama 3.2 series of multimodal models](https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-mobile-devices/). The models are lightweight yet extremely powerful for image-to-text and text-to-text tasks. In this article, you will learn how to use the Llama 3.2 Vision Instruct model for general image analysis, graph analysis, and facial sentiment prediction. … |
| | This article explains how to create a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) chatbot in LangChain using open-source models from [Hugging Face serverless inference API](https://huggingface.co/docs/api-inference/en/index). You will see how to call large language models (LLMs) and embedding models from Hugging Face serverless inference API using LangChain. You will also see how to … |
| | Open-source LLMS, owing to their comparable performance with advanced proprietary LLMs, have been gaining immense popularity lately. Open-source LLMs are free to use, and you can easily modify their source code or fine-tune them on your systems. [Alibaba's Qwen](https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions/generative-ai/qwen?_p_lc=1) and [Meta's Llama](https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/) series of models are two major players in … |
| | This blog post will compare the two most popular cross-platform mobile app development frameworks, Flutter and React Native.The world of mobile app development is a complicated place with many competing frameworks. It can be hard to know which one to use, but this article will help you find out if … |
 | I have an open source WAF in production. It's open source and free. It can be the alternative of Cloudflare, the open source edition. How can I find the potential users to try my WAF?  |
| | On September 19, 2024, [Alibaba released the Qwen 2.5 series of models](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/). The Qwen 2.5-72B base and instruct models outperformed larger state-of-the-art models like Llama 3.1-405B on multiple benchmarks. It is safe to assume that Qwen 2.5-72B is a state-of-the-art open-source large language model. This article will show you how … |
| | The AI wave has introduced a myriad of exciting applications. While text generation and natural language processing are leading the AI revolution, image, and vision-based technologies are quickly catching up. The intersection of text and vision applications has seen a rapid surge recently. In this article, you'll learn how to … |
| | In a previous article, I compared [GPT-4o mini vs. GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 Turbo for zero-shot text summarization](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/542208/gpt-4o-mini-vs-gpt-4o-vs-gpt-3-5-turbo-for-text-summarization). The results showed that the GPT-4o mini achieves almost similar performance for zero-shot text classification at a much-reduced price compared to the other models. I will compare Meta Llama 3.1 70b with OpenAI … |
 | Legal and regulatory challenges for blockchain projects include navigating uncertain laws, particularly regarding data privacy and smart contracts. Compliance with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations is tricky due to blockchain's pseudonymous nature. Token regulation complexity and cross-border transaction issues add further hurdles. Moreover, protecting intellectual property in open-source settings poses … |
 | LMs are great , but if you don't know how to ask the right questions , break your thoughts in manageable pieces they can't do it for you. Even when you do , you must have a level of experience to distinguish a wrong or crappy response from a legitimate … |
| | In my article on [Image Analysis Using OpenAI GPT-4o Model](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/542030/image-analysis-using-openai-gpt-4o-model), I explained how GPT-4o model allows you to analyze images and answer questions related images precisely. In this article, I will show you how to analyze images with the [Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet) model, which has shown state-of-the-art performance for … |
| | Hi What is wrong in my this backup code it always not working and gives me an error SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=(LocalDB)\MSSQLLocalDB; AttachDbFilename=D:\repos\mysales\WindowsFormsApp4\Database1.mdf; Integrated Security=True; "); string database = con.Database.ToString(); if (textBox1.Text == "") { MessageBox.Show("Please Enter Backup File Location"); } else { string cmd = "BACKUP DATABASE …  |
| | On April 18, 2024, Meta AI released [Llama 3](https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/), which they claimed to be the most capable openly available LLM to date. Concurrently, OpenAI announced [GPT-4o (omni)](https://community.openai.com/t/announcing-gpt-4o-in-the-api/744700) on May 13, 2024, which is touted as the state-of-the-art proprietary model for various NLP benchmarks. As a guy who loves to compare … |
| | In this tutorial, you will see how to summarize YouTube video transcriptions using [Distil Whisper large V3](https://huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-large-v3) and [Mistral-7b-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2). Both Distill Whisper Large V3 and Mistral-7B-Instruct models are open-source and free-to-use models. The Distil Whisper large V3 model is a faster and smaller variant of the [Whisper large V3 model](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3), … |
| | In my [previous articles](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/541732/paris-olympics-ticket-information-chatbot-with-memory-using-langchain), I explained how to develop customized chatbots using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach in [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/). However, I used proprietary models such as OpenAI, which can be expensive when you try to scale. In this article, I will show you how to use the open-source and free-of-cost … |
| | Basic background information Mariadb Ver 15.1 District 10.11.6 MariaDB Glarea cluster, one with three nodes: Node1:192.168.18.78 Node2: 192.168.18.79 Node3: 192.168.18.80 Among them, Node1 node was restarted after a power outage of 1 hour, and after executing the system ctl start mariadb, it was stuck for a long time (running for … |
 | Has anyone tried [Mastodon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)) yet? For those who don't know it's a federated, distributed and (currently) technology-orientated social network (well, rather a group of interoperable social networks) that's fully open source and ad-free. I've been impressed so far but as with every new network, whether it flies or not will … |
| | In the rapidly evolving field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), open-source large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly popular as they are free to use. Among these, the [Mistral](https://docs.mistral.ai/models/) family of models stands out as a state-of-the-art model that is freely accessible to the public. Comparable in performance to the … |
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| | In a previous article, I explained [how to fine-tune Google's Gemma model for text classification](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/computer-science/tutorials/541544/fine-tuning-google-gemma-model-for-text-classification-in-python). In this article, I will explain how you can improve performance of a pretrained large language model (LLM) using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) technique. So, let's begin without ado. ## What is Retrieval Augmented Generation … |
| | On February 21, 2024, Google released [Gemma](https://ai.google.dev/gemma), a family of state-of-the-art open-source large language models (LLMs). As per initial results, its 7b (seven billion parameter) version is known to perform better than Meta's [Llama 2](https://llama.meta.com/), the previous state-of-the-art open-source LLM. As always, my first test with any new open-source LLM … |
| | **ChatGPT has had lazy days before, but this week’s performance marks an unprecedented low. Here’s why many ChatGPT Pro users are canceling their subscriptions – and even more might follow.**  Yes, complaints about ChatGPT being lazy have been around for as long as the LLM itself. I have written … |
 | When it comes to selecting a framework for a development project, it's crucial to make an informed decision. With so many options available, it can be challenging to determine the best fit for the project's needs. Let's take a look at some of the pros and cons of popular frameworks … |
| | **What is e-commerce software development?** The term eCommerce was coined in 1972 and it has slowly gained popularity as a buzzword since then. Today, we understand it as an umbrella term that covers all online buying and selling, including everything from selling physical products to providing digital services. There are …  |
| | i need to improve english and React skill. i aleady have six years develop expriences. how can i find a open source project to improve english and React skill. thank you.  |
| | **Step into a future where every action has a price and algorithms decide your societal value: As technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, this dystopian vision postulates that our every move, preference, and even emotion could be quantified, analyzed, and commodified — prompting us to question if we're the users … |
| | Understanding facial expressions is crucial for various tasks, from recognizing emotions to enhancing security measures. While extracting faces from pictures is easy, doing the same in videos is tricky. Imagine creating videos with only highlighted facial expressions, offering a unique perspective on human interactions. Various tools are available for face … |
 | ## Introduction ## In Android Studio, we can run multiple tests in parallel across multiple devices using the dropdown menu.  Running instrumented tests this way is very convenient during development, but there is a problem with this method when your tests are run on a remote build server: * … |
| | In one of my research projects, I needed to extract text from video files and create a CSV file that included sentiments expressed in the text. Manual extraction was time-consuming and costly. So, I explored Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems and discovered OpenAI [Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper), known for its high accuracy in …  |
| | Earlier this week, a Reddit account confirmed to belong to Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, [asserted in a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/16sdu6w/rip_jimmy_apples/k2aroaw/?context=3) that "AGI has been achieved internally." This announcement came after a similar statement by a cryptic insider named "Jimmy Apples" on X/Twitter (account now deleted), known for prior correct forecasts about OpenAI's … |
 | Hi everyone I'm Andras, I am interested in joining this community. I only use free and open source image editing  |
 | I am trying to open a camera on a browser with javascript i have this code and it was working yesteday but when i tried today to open through mobile its saying `NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.` <button … |
| | How can Chinese open source projects become better known overseas. I'm one of the people running this open source project |
| | My code is this. Dim strSQL As String, strSQL2 As String Dim db As Connection, rst As ADODB.Recordset Set db = New Connection db.CursorLocation = adUseClient db.Open "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\River Syde RMS\RiverSyde.mdb;" strSQL = "SHAPE {SELECT * FROM Sales where Date1=#" & DTPicker3.Value & "#" Set rst = New ADODB.Recordset If … |
 | The benefits of online shopping need no elaboration anymore. Billions of people rely on online shopping service providers across the world. In fact, the e-commerce platforms proved to be saviors for people during the months of lockdown. Developing an online store can be profitable for sure but choosing the right … |
| | openGauss is an open source relational database management system, which deeply integrates Huawei's years of experience in the database field. Combined with the needs of enterprise scenarios, what deployment forms does it support in the enterprise architecture? |
| | Need help, been stuck on this the past couple days i dont really understand how to get my code to read from my file and count each occurence of a letter wheter they are uppr or lower case and output them to a file, just need help with the counting … |
| | In China, many manufacturers are 'replacing IOE' and are moving closer to open source databases.openGauss is an open source database developed by Huawei itself. Although there is policy support,but ，Oracle has always been ranked first in DB-Engines Ranking. So, do you think openGauss database can replace Oracle database? |
| | In recent years, open source software, and open source community construction is more popular, such as: mysql, postgresql, and openGauss database open source communities .So, as an individual, how to specifically participate in the open source community contribution? |
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