In an exercise in dogfooding, I asked the GPT-4 large language model “What is retrieval-augmented generation?” using its Browse plug-in, which is one implementation of retrieval-augmented generation.

This is what GPT-4 eventually told me, after I asked it to regenerate its answer:

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI framework that significantly impacts the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is designed to improve the accuracy and richness of content produced by language models. Here’s a synthesis of the key points regarding RAG from various sources:

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Java Development Kit 22, due in March 2024 as the next version of Java Standard Edition, will include 12 features, with a second preview of scoped values and a preview of stream gatherers being the last additions.

JDK 22 reached the rampdown one phase, with the feature set frozen, on December 7, 2023, and entered rampdown phase two on January 18, 2024. General availability is set for March 19, with two release candidates planned for February. Bugs will be examined between now and the general release.

Scoped values enable the safe and efficient sharing of immutable data within and across threads. These are preferred to thread-local variables, especially when using large numbers of thread variables. Goals include ease of use, comprehensibility, robustness, and performance.

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GitHub’s Innovation Graph , a repository containing structured data files of public activity on GitHub, counts more than 20 million US software developers using the platform.

Just-released findings incorporating data from Q3 2023 provide a comprehensive breakdown of global developer activity including top languages, numbers of users by country, and economy collaborators, GitHub said. GitHub released the GitHub Innovation Graph findings on January 18. Key findings include:

• More than 20,226,000 US developers and more than 1,132,400 US organizations are building on GitHub.
• US developers uploaded code from GitHub more than 23.7 million times.
• US developers and/or organizations own more than 56.7 million repositories on GitHub.
• The three top collaborators with US developers were developers from Canada, Germany, and India. The Innovation Graph tracks collaboration between global economies as the summation of Git pushes sent and pull requests opened between one economy to another.
• JavaScript was the highest ranking programming language in the United States based on the number of unique developers who uploaded code, followed by Python and Shell.

The GitHub Innovation Graph was first launched in September 2023. Raw data date back to 2020. New data represent a significant update to help policymakers and researchers better understand the nuances of global software development, particularly regarding cross-country collaboration, GitHub said.

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IBM on Thursday said that it was acquiring application modernization assets from Advanced in an effort to enhance the mainframe application and data modernization services of its consulting business.

Advanced, which is headquartered out of Birmingham, UK, provides mainframe modernization and OpenVMS and VME migration services.

The assets and services acquired from Advanced are expected to complement the capabilities of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z , the company said in a statement.

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As creators and IP holders argue with generative AI companies over the correct protocol to use data for training generative AI systems, a new non-profit firm, Fairly Trained, is offering certifications to companies who train their generative AI models on “consented” data.

“We believe consumers deserve to know which companies think creator consent is important and which don’t. So, we certify AI companies that don’t use any copyrighted work without a license,” the company, dubbed Fairly Trained, said on its homepage .

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Systems management and security software provider Quest Software is shipping Toad Data Studio, a platform for streamlining database management in heterogeneous relational and NoSQL database environments.

Announced January 17, Toad Data Studio allows users to manage nearly any database platform in their environment including cloud and on-premises sources and relational, NoSQL, and data warehouse sources, Quest Software said. A free trial is offered.

Toad Data Studio features an advanced SQL editor, SQL and DDL generation, and the ability to edit JSON and XML fields directly within table fields or in their own separate editing window. Users can compare data results across different queries or between different environments, either on the fly or through automated workflows, and develop desktop automations for routine tasks.

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The recent evolution of .NET has been fun to watch. Since .NET became an open-source platform, it has finally delivered on its cross-platform promise. At the same time, support for Linux has given it more traction in the cloud-native space, with the latest releases supporting container runtimes.

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When working on applications, you will often need to convert one type to another. Object mapping is the process of mapping a source object to a destination object, where the types of the source and destination objects might differ.

For example, you might need to create an instance of one class from an instance of another class, then copy the data from the source object to the destination object. Although there are many object mappers available to use, you may need to implement your own custom mappers in certain situations. In this article, we’ll see how we can implement a simple but fast object mapper in C#.

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Create a console application project in Visual Studio

First off, let’s create a .NET Core console application project in Visual Studio. Assuming Visual Studio 2022 is installed in your system, follow the steps outlined below to create a new .NET Core console application project.

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Red Hat has unveiled the Red Hat Developer Hub , an enterprise-level internal developer platform (IDP) for building developer portals. The platform provides an opinionated framework and set of templates that will “reduce friction and frustration” for development teams, Red Hat said.

Based on the Backstage open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project and accessible from a Red Hat account , the Red Hat Developer Hub was announced January 16 and features a self-service portal, standardized software templates, dynamic plug-in management, enterprise role-based access control, and premium support. Tools are provided to overcome devops bottlenecks and deal with issues such as complexity, lack of standardization, and cognitive load.

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