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Article: Composable Commerce: Inside Shipt’s Kit Platform

Shipt launched its Kits feature, enabling quick assembly of themed grocery bundles for events. The platform architecture lets merchandisers easily create store-aware kits, streamlining previously labor-intensive workflows. It utilizes a flexible model of items, shopping lists, and kits to ensure kits display accurately based on local inventory and customer needs. By Khurshid Hameed

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Best Clean Code and Refactoring Books, and the Order to Read Them

Clean Code was the first text I handed to my students. Since then I have read the six other books fighting for the "clean code" shelf, and they do not all say the same thing.

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  • Follow with "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin for timeless principles
  • Conclude with "Test-Driven Development: By Example" for TDD mindset

Ai2's Olmo-core 3 Keeps Every Expert on the GPU and Throughput Nearly Flat

TL;DR Olmo-core 3 is the open training framework the Allen Institute for AI builds its Olmo language models with, released as source code under the Apache 2.0 licence with a technical report beside…

  • Olmo-core 3 replaces fully sharded data parallelism with distributed data parallelism.
  • Throughput increases by roughly 2.7 times with Olmo-core 3 compared to previous implementation.

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