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There's more to New Year's Eve than simply enjoying a few glasses of something bubbly. The post Seven Waves And Red Underwear: 6 New Year’s Eve Traditions From Around The World appeared first on Babbel.

Ten years after the introduction of PEP 484, we surveyed the current state of the Python type system and the tools developers are using. Read More... The post Typed Python in 2024: Well adopted, yet usability challenges persist appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what better way to get into the Christmas spirit than with 10 wonderful Christmas traditions in different languages? The post 10 Words That Represent Christmas Traditions In Different Languages appeared first on Babbel.

December 25th might signify the birth of Jesus for Christians, but the Winter Solstice is also central to other traditions. The post The Other Side Of Christmas: Pagan Winter Solstice Festivals appeared first on Babbel.

From caroling with a horse skull to enjoying Christmas Eve at KFC, these holiday customs give the old man in the chimney a run for his money. The post 11 Wacky Holiday Traditions Around The World appeared first on Babbel.

Check out this list of festive words to get you out of that winter slump. The post 10 Of The Most Wonderful Winter Words appeared first on Babbel.

What do a baseball player's dog, the song of the summer and the newest Doctor Who star have in common? They all made it to this year's list! The post What Are The Most Mispronounced Words Of 2024? appeared first on Babbel.

An expert on nonverbal communication shares his 7 favorite Italian hand gestures. The post 7 Italian Gestures That Could Come In Handy appeared first on Babbel.

Exploring America's most common languages and the geography and culture of the people who speak them. The post What Are The Most Spoken Languages In The U.S.? appeared first on Babbel.

At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Sarita and Moritz, two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a [...] Read More... The post Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

This Halloween, get a lesson in supernatural scare tactics from the Boogeyman and 14 of his cousins. The post 15 Terrifying Boogeymen From Around The World appeared first on Babbel.

Joyce Gold started showing people the Big Apple when Gerald Ford was still president, 47 years ago. The post Taking A Walk With New York City’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide appeared first on Babbel.

With the fall season well and truly upon us, why not don your hiking boots and head out to the forests for some verdant joie de vivre? The post Shinrin-yoku: Our 7 Favorite Forest Sayings In Other Languages appeared first on Babbel.

This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig [...] Read More... The post Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

The Quantum Apocalypse is coming. The advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the future of data privacy over the internet.  Someday, advances in quantum computing will make it possible to decrypt sensitive data that was encrypted using today’s complex cryptography systems. In the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast you’ll meet Sheran [...] Read More... The post Meta is getting ready for post-quantum cryptography appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.1 will enable new workflows, such as synthetic data generation and model distillation with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models.  At AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Meta engineers discussed every step of how we [...] Read More... The post Bringing Llama 3 to life appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

With temperatures all over Europe breaking heat records, why not don your goggles and head for an invigorating splash? The post H2Eau: 10 Of Our Favorite Swimming Sayings In Other Languages appeared first on Babbel.

Spoiler: association football (or soccer) is by far the most common choice. The post A World Tour Of Athletics: The Most Popular Sports By Country appeared first on Babbel.

Being vegan abroad can present challenges, but it's definitely not impossible. The post How To Order Vegan Food In Other Languages While Traveling appeared first on Babbel.

Have you ever wondered where the names of all those yoga poses have come from? In honor of International Day of Yoga, we’re exploring the role of Sanskrit in the ancient practice of yoga. The post 15 Sanskrit Words From The World Of Yoga appeared first on Babbel.