Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a ...

Abstract: Activation functions are pivotal in neural networks, determining the output of each neuron. Traditionally, functions like sigmoid and ReLU have been static and deterministic. However, the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections. By Charlie Savage Reporting from Washington, D.C. A ...

Founded by former OpenAI staff members and funded by Amazon and Google, Anthropic has raised the stakes in the GPT wars. Anthropic's Claude Desktop app often outshines its ChatGPT rival in various ...

How do you balance risk management and safety with innovation in agentic systems — and how do you grapple with core considerations around data and model selection? In this VB Transform session, Milind ...

Abstract: A combined cryptosystem with symmetric keys for encrypting messages is proposed. Its unique feature is the use of functions of a real variable as keys instead of natural numbers. Eight key ...

Using ChatGPT on a long-term basis could have negative effects on brain function. That’s according to a study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which found that using a large ...