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Two physicists developed an algorithm to analyze Taylor Swifts emotions in each of her songs. The analysis was published on April 1, and the paper is meant as a joke — but the science is real. A total of nine hours, 43 minutes, and six seconds of music were analyzed by the pair. Two physicists from the University of Chicago released an in-depth report on Thursday outlining an algorithm that they developed to analyze 149 Taylor Swift songs to decode the award-winning singers emotions over the ...

Architecture decision records (ADRs) help keep track of decisions about tech tools and projects. GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and eBay use ADRs to provide a detailed, clear history and guide the future.  Losing the context on a decision can make it a "silent, lurking liability" and ADRs avoid that. When developers at fintech startup Nubank needed to choose which database theyd use for its customer interaction system, they didnt rush into the decision. They carefully listed all of the attributes they ...

Reliable Deployments at GitHub by The GitHub engineering team recently blogged about how they ensure fast and reliable deployments. Raffaele Di Fazio, software engineer at GitHub, provided a deep dive into the deployment mechanics at GitHub. GitHub is deployed on multiple Kubernetes Clusters and also on physical servers. As the deployment process impacts the GitHub customers and the internal users, safeguarding deployment reliability was critical for the team. The GitHub engineering team...

Pinch, punch, first day of the month Richard Speed Mon 1 Mar 2021 // 11:32 UTC Share Copy Code automation stalwarts have endured a frustrating start to the week after GitHub Action began tottering this morning, taking a number of carefully crafted workflows down with it. User problems were first reported at 9.44 UTC on 1 March, and a minute before the hour the Microsoft division admitted there was "degraded availability" for GitHub actions. That degraded availability man...

Nick DeJesus/GitHub GitHub Sponsors lets stakeholders give money to developers of open source projects they depend on. Hundreds of devs use it to make a full-time living and some even pull in six figure salaries. A GitHub product exec told Insider the firm is planning a global expansion and testing new models. Although open source software powers some of the worlds most well-known technologies, even the most popular projects are often maintained by developers who v...

Date Time Coding between vines EMBL Teen reinforces the value of allyship in STEM as she develops app to identify grapevine diseases A member of the EMBL Teen community, Maria-Theresa Licka, has created a news-making app that helps winemakers identify early stages of disease on their vines. Credit: Ivo Licka A member of the EMBL Teen community has made identifying leaf diseases on grapevines as easy as taking a picture with a smartphone, and it’s why she’s making news. Now Maria-Theresa L...

Date Time Deep Learning Trains Buildings to Optimize Efficiency In the United States, residential and commercial buildings account for nearly 40 percent of all energy consumption. About 40 percent of that energy use is from heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. An emerging efficiency method for buildings called model predictive control (MPC) could reduce HVAC energy use by up to 50 percent without impacting occupant comfort. But the method has been hampered by high costs as...

GitHub is increasing developer’s take-home pay for apps sold to 95 per cent from 75

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Microsoft-owned open source developer platform GitHub has reduced its Marketplace transaction fee from 25 per cent to just 5 per cent. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2021 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. The reproduction of the story/photograph in any form will be liable for legal action. For news, views and gossips, follow IANS at Twitter. Update: 06-February-2021

The move will put more revenue in the pockets of the developers, who are doing the work building tools that support the GitHub community, the company said in a statement on Friday.