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 PM> Get-Project -All | Add-BindingRedirect

In the February 2016 issue of MSDN Magazine, I showed how to create a custom scripting language based on the Split-And-Merge algorithm for parsing mathematical expressions in C# (msdn.com/magazine/mt632273). I called my language Customizable Scripting in C#, or CSCS. Recently, I published an E-book that provided more details about creating a custom language (bit.ly/2yijCod). Creating your own scripting language might not initially seem to be particularly useful, even though there are some interesting applications of it (for example, game cheating). I also found some applications in Unity programming.

ChatGPT is bullshit

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know. 

I often hear a founder get very excited about the prospect of a large customer.

HTTP/2 is faster in all the cases than the old standard, and often quite considerably.

1) 101 will be maintained to minimize overlap with vanilla JS.

2) No need for custom builds.

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These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.4:

• Green squiggles and light bulb with "Macro in skipped region" message.
• F7 does not switch to code.
• F7 does not build anymore.
• F7 build does not work.
• LINK : error : Telemetry event upload failed: 'Failed to open connection to VCTIP'.
• AXML file doesn't open after update.
• F7 no longer toggles between the designer and the code.
• XAML Editor Error: Window is not supported in WPF project.
• WinForms View.ToggleDesigner does not work as it used to.
• Toggle designer key binding lost.
• F7 does not start a new build.
• F7 no longer toggles between Designer and Code views.
• There is a problem with structure definition in C language.
• Provisioning a new SQL Server and new SQL DB in a different region than the App Service plan fails.

Git Security Vulnerability

We also fixed a security vulnerability in Git that was disclosed by the Git community. The vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user clones a malicious repository. This blog post has more information.