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Abstract: Within software engineering research, Large Language Models (LLMs) are often treated as ‘black boxes’, with only their inputs and outputs being considered. In this paper, we take a machine ...

More Markdown features are coming to Notepad.

Anil Dash wrote a really fun, really deep history of Markdown, the text markup language John Gruber created that has subsequently become totally ubiquitous online. Dash also argues that the idea ...

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IBM is releasing Granite-Docling-258M, an ultra-compact and cutting-edge open-source vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats while fully preserving their ...