Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones

Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his decades-later sequel “28 Years Later” (which opened this weekend), Boyle turned to a different piece … Read more

The Social and Academic Upsides of Pair Programming

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Previous Research 3 Course Description 4 Methods 5 Results 6 Discussion 7 Conclusion and Future Work, Acknowledgments, and References 6 DISCUSSION Over the semester, we noted several observed benefits from the instructor and TA perspective. First, pair programming promotes social intelligence and teamwork capability, two important skills … Read more

Remote Pair Programming’s Hidden Strengths in Advanced CS

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Previous Research 3 Course Description 4 Methods 5 Results 6 Discussion 7 Conclusion and Future Work, Acknowledgments, and References 4 METHODS 4.1 Research Design and Participants Participants included all Data Structures students. Data was collected from student records, including student examination scores and assignment completion. In addition, … Read more

Why Upper-Level CS Majors Should Work Together

:::info Authors: (1) Zachariah Beasley, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA (zjb@usf.edu); (2) Ayesha Johnson, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA (arjohns2@usf.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Previous Research 3 Course Description 4 Methods 5 Results 6 Discussion 7 Conclusion and Future Work, Acknowledgments, and References ABSTRACT Pair programming … Read more

New Regularization-Free Energy Function for Transformer Analysis

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Model and 3.1 Associative memories 3.2 Transformer blocks 4 A New Energy Function 4.1 The layered structure 5 Cross-Entropy Loss 6 Empirical Results and 6.1 Empirical evaluation of the radius 6.2 Training GPT-2 6.3 Training Vanilla Transformers 7 Conclusion and Acknowledgments Appendix A. Deferred … Read more

Solana’s SOL Falls 8% as Traders Brace for Fallout From a Spike in Oil Price

Solana (SOL) SOL is trading at $128.82, down 8.33% in the past 24 hours, after a steep intraday correction linked to rising geopolitical tensions. The token dropped from $140.39 to $127.25, with the sharpest hourly decline occurring at 13:00, when sell pressure spiked and trading volume exceeded 4 million, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis … Read more