Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a ...

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.
Ministry of Testing

Testing data quality effectively

In some ways, data and its quality can seem strange to people used to assessing the quality of software. There’s often no observable behaviour to check and little in the way of structure to help you ...
InfoQ

Are You Missing a Data Frame? The Power of Data Frames in Java

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...
OMG! Ubuntu

LibreOffice 26.2 released with Excel boosts & Markdown support

LibreOffice 26.2 is here with multi-user Base, better Excel pasting, Markdown support and speed boosts. Coming to Ubuntu ...
Hackaday

Hackaday Podcast Episode 355: Person Detectors, Walkie Talkies, Open Smartphones, And A WiFi Traffic Light

Another chilly evening in Western Europe, as Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List to chew the fat over the ...
NOLA.com

Guest Column: New Orleans is poised to lead in innovation. But action is needed now.

Now is the time for New Orleans to have a vibrant, public conversation about the role of innovation in our economic development strategy, particularly as our new mayor takes office. A recent study by ...
Mercury News

Kurtenbach: The 49ers’ carpet ride hit a wall in Seattle. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t magic

SEATTLE — If your favorite football team just got vaporized 41-6 by their most hated rivals in a playoff game that looked less like a sporting event and more like a National Geographic documentary on ...
Chicago Sun-Times

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The New York Times

Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released

The release of files, videos and photographs from the federal inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein is the largest to date, and the final one planned by the Justice Department. Times reporters are sifting ...
Orlando Sentinel

Judith Martin

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