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Apple Begins Notifying WWDC 2023 Swift Student Challenge Winners
WWDC 2023 will be held online from June 5 through June 9, with sessions and other content to be made available on Apple’s website and in the Apple Developer app free of charge. There will also be a special in-person day at Apple Park on June 5 for randomly selected developers to watch the keynote, enjoy evening activities, and more.
The annual challenge tasks students with creating a Swift Playgrounds project, and Apple judges submissions based on technical ability and creativity.
I just won the Swift Student Challenge – again! #WWDC #SwiftStudentChallenge pic.twitter.com/3zx3ZDa1HV
— Vedant (@vedantapps) May 9, 2023
I can’t believe it… #SwiftStudentChallenge #WWDC23 pic.twitter.com/GrFmpbuqrz
— Louisa Gareiss (@louisagareiss) May 9, 2023
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Dianna Agron Spills New Insight On Those Taylor Swift Dating Rumors
Dianna Agron is spilling the tea, because she is opening up about those Taylor Swift dating rumors.
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The actress recently did an interview with Rolling Stone, where she was asked about being included in the liner notes for Swift’s song ’22,’ which led fans to speculate they were dating back in the day.
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Did you miss it? Taylor Swift Announces ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’
Taylor Swift is continuing her streak of releasing music. This time around, it is another one of her re-recorded albums.
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During her concert in Nashville over the weekend, Swift took the time to share that she would be releasing ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ on July 7.
Swift also took to twitter to share the news with those who were not at the concert.
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Swift Creator’s Company Builds New Programming Language ‘Mojo’ – a Python Superset
“But sadly,” Howard writes, Swift “did not receive the support it needed from either Apple or from Google, and it was not ultimately successful.” And yet…
[W]hilst at Google Chris did develop another project which became hugely successful: MLIR. MLIR is a replacement for LLVM’s intermediate representation [or IR] for the modern age of many-core computing and AI workloads. It’s critical for fully leveraging the power of hardware like GPUs, TPUs, and the vector units increasingly being added to server-class CPUs.
So, if Swift was “syntax sugar for LLVM”, what’s “syntax sugar for MLIR”? The answer is: Mojo! Mojo is a brand new language that’s designed to take full advantage of MLIR. And also Mojo is Python.
Wait what?
OK let me explain. Maybe it’s better to say Mojo is Python++. It will be (when complete) a strict superset of the Python language. But it also has additional functionality so we can write high performance code that takes advantage of modern accelerators…
Whereas Swift was a brand new language packing all kinds of cool features based on latest research in programming language design, Mojo is, at its heart, just Python. This seems wise, not just because Python is already well understood by millions of coders, but also because after decades of use its capabilities and limitations are now well understood. Relying on the latest programming language research is pretty cool, but its potentially-dangerous speculation because you never really know how things will turn out…
A key trick in Mojo is that you can opt in at any time to a faster “mode” as a developer, by using “fn” instead of “def” to create your function. In this mode, you have to declare exactly what the type of every variable is, and as a result Mojo can create optimised machine code to implement your function. Furthermore, if you use “struct” instead of “class”, your attributes will be tightly packed into memory, such that they can even be used in data structures without chasing pointers around. These are the kinds of features that allow languages like C to be so fast, and now they’re accessible to Python programmers too — just by learning a tiny bit of new syntax…
I can’t begin to describe all the little (and big!) ideas throughout Mojo’s design and implementation — it’s the result of Chris and his team’s decades of work on compiler and language design and includes all the tricks and hard-won experience from that time — but what I can describe is an amazing result that I saw with my own eyes.
Mojo hasn’t been released to the public yet, (other than an online “playground” with a waitlist where they’re “rolling out access slowly.”) But the blog post notes that creating a programming language’s syntax is usually complex, error-prone, and controversial — a problem Mojo neatly avoids by “outsourcing” its syntax to an existing language, “which also happens to be the most widely used language today.”
And “As a compiled language, Mojo’s deployment story is basically the same as C,” the post argues. [That is, “you can literally just make the compiled program available for direct download. It can be just 100k or so in size, and will launch and run quickly.”]
“This means that Mojo is far more than a language for AI/ML applications. It’s actually a version of Python that allows us to write fast, small, easily-deployed applications that take advantage of all available cores and accelerators!”
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Taylor Swift announces ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ album at Nashville concert
Taylor Swift has done it again, giving her fans in Nashville Friday night the exclusive first look at the next release in her Taylor’s Version series of re-recorded albums. During the first stop of The Eras Tour in her hometown, Swift revealed that Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) will be released on July 7 in all formats, including a violet vinyl that fans can pre-order now.
Swift surprised her fans at the Nissan Stadium by performing the album’s title track, “Sparks Fly,” before revealing the album cover and release date on the big screens. Swift indicated in an Instagram post that the updated version includes six previously unreleased tracks:
Initially released in 2010, the Grammy Award-nominated album featured singles like “Mean,” and “Ours,” with the former winning a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. Speak Now upon its debut sold more than a million copies in its first week, a record sales number for a solo female country artist.
Between the announcement, the spotting of Matt Healy at the show, and Swift and Phoebe Bridgers performing “Nothing New” live for the first time, Friday was a big night for Swifties. (Or a bad night if you weren’t there…sorry).
For context for those not in the know, since 2019, Swift has been re-releasing her pre-Lover albums in an effort to regain control of her music catalog. Swift’s former label, Big Machine Records, owned the rights to her first six studio albums, and in 2019, they were acquired by music manager Scooter Braun. In response, Swift announced her plans to re-record her earlier music and release new versions of her albums under her ownership. These new versions, dubbed “Taylor’s Version,” allow her to control the rights to her songs and receive royalties from their use. So far, Swift has released Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in April 2021 and Red (Taylor’s Version) in November 2021.
Speak Now was a watershed release for Swift as it’s the only album where she has sole songwriting credits. With it’s new and improved re-release July 7, she’ll be halfway done with reclaiming control of her previous work.
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Billboard 200: Taylor Swift Becomes First Living Female Artist To Score 3 Simultaneous Top 10 Albums
Taylor Swift‘s record year continues, because she just tied a Whitney Houston record but also set a new one.
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On this week’s Billboard 200 chart, Swift places 3 simultaneous albums in the top 10. ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’ lands at #3, ‘Midnights’ is #4,
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New Song: The National – ‘The Alcott’ (featuring Taylor Swift)
Taylor Swift and The National have joined forces once more.
Case in point, they have teamed for a new song called ‘The Alcott.’
Building off of previous releases, ‘The Alcott’ is a down tempo cut that features plenty of vocal interplay between Swift and Bryce Dessner.
Across the tune, they sing:
“And the last thing you wanted is the first thing I do/ I tell you my problems,
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