The Poynter Institute for Media Studies

Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
Daily Independent

Rocking and Writing: Four strings of influence

I played passenger for most of my high school days for two reasons: I had a lot of older friends; and I was by far the youngest in my class. See, I used to be smart, and I achieved “double-promotion” ...
Futurism

New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. After a ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
Live For Live Music

A More Important Story Than The Billy Strings Review I Was Supposed To Write

On Saturday morning, I sat on the balcony of my hotel and waxed poetic about the Billy Strings community, about how the shows are much more than the notes played onstage. More so than any Billy ...
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[Ruby Introduction] Writing Multi-line Strings Cleanly! How to Use 3 Types of Heredocs

When developing or maintaining web applications, you frequently encounter situations where you need to assemble long, multi-line text within your program, such as SQL queries for database operations ...
Deadline.com

Evan & Gregg Spiridellis Set First Animated Feature ‘Space Unicorn’; ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Marc Haimes Co-Writing

EXCLUSIVE: Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, the fraternal filmmaking duo behind next-gen animation outfit Spiridellis Bros. Studios, are casting up on Space Unicorn, their first animated feature. Space ...
InfoQ

Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...
Nature

Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...
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[C#] Stop writing "variable names" as strings. Techniques to make code safer with the nameof operator

This carries a significant risk. What happens if you **rename** the variable userId to accountId during development? Variable names are updated via bulk replacement tools, but the string "userId" is ...
The New York Times

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...
NPR

After losing his mother to an overdose, musician Billy Strings plays to honor her

Singer-songwriter Billy Strings says his guitar has been his best friend for as long as he can remember. "I slept with my guitar when I was 4 or 5 years old," he says. "I'd put it right under the ...