Small language models should be more cost effective to deploy than LLMs, offering greater privacy, and performing specific or tightly-defined tasks. But is it early days for SLMs?

In fact, the idea underlying his best-known work, the now 60-year-old BASIC programming language, was to bring computing, which was still a rather elitist activity at the time, within everyone's reach ...

I think it’s interesting that these were two tools you had to pay for. These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our ...

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity Your email has been sent The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar ...

This is the next in a series of challenges on your ability to recognize new and obscure programming languages. And you thought there would only be three of these quizzes. Well, I have a lot more ...

A version of Leibniz’s dream lives on today in programming languages. They don’t represent the totality of the physical and philosophical universe, but instead, the next best thing—the ever ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE ...

Abstract: Short videos have emerged as a powerful medium for self-expression and background music (BGM) plays a crucial role in enhancing audience immersion. Existing video-to-audio generation methods ...

C is a programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. C is very widely used, straightforward, and can be compiled to a number of platforms and operating systems. C is an imperative ...

Specifically, LLMs bring capabilities so far understood to be restricted to humans, such as using collected knowledge to generate causal graphs or identifying background causal context from natural ...