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The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot(cacm.acm.org)

6 points by fscaramuzza 1 month ago | 6 comments

Communications of the ACM research article on the gap between individual efficiency gains and overall throughput when using GitHub Copilot; page showed a Cloudflare check.

Why is privacy so hard? (2019)(cacm.acm.org)

48 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 55 comments

AI Is a Harsh Mistress(cacm.acm.org)

45 points by fscaramuzza 2 months ago | 24 comments

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust(cacm.acm.org)

86 points by pseudolus 2 months ago | 36 comments

Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library(cacm.acm.org)

180 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 149 comments

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores(cacm.acm.org)

51 points by shenli3514 3 months ago | 17 comments

AI makes programming differently difficult(cacm.acm.org)

117 points by tchalla 3 months ago | 85 comments

Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs(cacm.acm.org)

95 points by adunk 3 months ago | 68 comments

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side(cacm.acm.org)

35 points by adunk 3 months ago | 8 comments

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure(cacm.acm.org)

59 points by tosh 3 months ago | 12 comments

Cooling at the Speed of Light(cacm.acm.org)

20 points by sohkamyung 4 months ago | 2 comments

The Road to a Billion-Token Context(cacm.acm.org)

39 points by pseudolus 5 months ago | 35 comments

A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust(cacm.acm.org)

41 points by tkhattra 5 months ago | 2 comments

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer(cacm.acm.org)

571 points by speckx 6 months ago | 215 comments

Communications of the ACM news article on how NASA engineered a fail-silent, fault-tolerant computer architecture for the Artemis II crewed Moon mission.

Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World(cacm.acm.org)

36 points by sohkamyung 6 months ago | 9 comments

Tony Hoare and His Imprint on Computer Science(cacm.acm.org)

60 points by matt_d 7 months ago | 4 comments

A decade of Docker containers(cacm.acm.org)

337 points by zacwest 7 months ago | 241 comments

Communications of the ACM research article by Madhavapeddy, Scott, and Cormack reviewing ten years of Docker containers and the technical challenges behind them.

OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up(cacm.acm.org)

77 points by Beeroness 8 months ago | 43 comments

Two Concepts of Intelligence(cacm.acm.org)

55 points by 1970-01-01 9 months ago | 59 comments

The five orders of ignorance (2000)(cacm.acm.org)

74 points by svilen_dobrev 9 months ago | 18 comments

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence(cacm.acm.org)

146 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 94 comments

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience(cacm.acm.org)

71 points by mschnell 11 months ago | 46 comments

How the U.S. National Science Foundation enabled Software-Defined Networking(cacm.acm.org)

96 points by zdw 1 year ago | 27 comments

Automatically Translating C to Rust(cacm.acm.org)

97 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 66 comments

Cyberpsychology's Influence on Modern Computing(cacm.acm.org)

20 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 4 comments

If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?(cacm.acm.org)

23 points by ketanmaheshwari 1 year ago | 29 comments

SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets(cacm.acm.org)

65 points by zdw 1 year ago | 24 comments

An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf(cacm.acm.org)

95 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 13 comments

Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services(cacm.acm.org)

345 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 127 comments

Communications of the ACM practice article by Marc Brooker and Ankush Desai on how AWS uses formal and semi-formal methods to ensure systems correctness.

Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data?(cacm.acm.org)

92 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 103 comments

Reversing the fossilization of computer science conferences(cacm.acm.org)

73 points by tosh 1 year ago | 52 comments

The End of Programming(cacm.acm.org)

6 points by cumo 1 year ago | 7 comments

ACM's flagship magazine seeks submissions by/for practitioners(cacm.acm.org)

40 points by underscoreF 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Outlook for Programmers(cacm.acm.org)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 39 comments

Why R the Critical Value and Emergent Behavior of Large Language Models Fake?(cacm.acm.org)

7 points by eferdinand 1 year ago | 6 comments

The Last Solo Programmers(cacm.acm.org)

5 points by CarlosBaquero 1 year ago | 1 comments

Gary Marcus discusses AI's technical problems(cacm.acm.org)

20 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 20 comments

Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions(cacm.acm.org)

39 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 8 comments

Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights(cacm.acm.org)

263 points by sidcool 1 year ago | 157 comments

It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety(cacm.acm.org)

65 points by mepian 1 year ago | 54 comments

21st Century C++(cacm.acm.org)

64 points by steveklabnik 1 year ago | 49 comments

21st Century C++(cacm.acm.org)

154 points by bandwitch 1 year ago | 212 comments

Life lessons from the first half-century of my career(cacm.acm.org)

358 points by zdw 1 year ago | 137 comments

Communications of the ACM opinion piece by David A. Patterson sharing 16 life lessons and nine magic words from 50 years of his computing career.

Software Bugs Led to 'One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice'(cacm.acm.org)

20 points by adunk 1 year ago | 2 comments

I was wrong about the ethics crisis(cacm.acm.org)

246 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 341 comments

Program Synthesis and Large Language Models(cacm.acm.org)

58 points by ChristofferSN 1 year ago | 14 comments

Controlling AI's Growing Energy Needs(cacm.acm.org)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Rise of Bluesky(cacm.acm.org)

17 points by g0xA52A2A 1 year ago | 1 comments

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Is the Best Topology of Them All?(cacm.acm.org)

67 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 6 comments

Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines(cacm.acm.org)

126 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 22 comments

A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt(cacm.acm.org)

211 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 126 comments

Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM(cacm.acm.org)

95 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 58 comments

The Secret of Ramsey Numbers(cacm.acm.org)

41 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up(cacm.acm.org)

8 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 4 comments

What is theoretical computer science?(cacm.acm.org)

132 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 105 comments

You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth(cacm.acm.org)

185 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 83 comments

50 Years of Queries(cacm.acm.org)

102 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 27 comments

Tracking the historical events that lead to the interweaving of knowledge (2021)(cacm.acm.org)

44 points by punkpeye 2 years ago | 3 comments

Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?(cacm.acm.org)

69 points by zdw 2 years ago | 70 comments

A Brief History of Blockchain Interoperability(cacm.acm.org)

34 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 13 comments

Faster Integer Programming(cacm.acm.org)

146 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 39 comments

How CrowdStrike Stopped Everything(cacm.acm.org)

8 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 4 comments

The historical distinction between coder and programmer(cacm.acm.org)

32 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 43 comments

Alive and Well, as a Matter of Fax(cacm.acm.org)

15 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 6 comments

The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education(cacm.acm.org)

29 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 30 comments

Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures(cacm.acm.org)

45 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 13 comments

Explainability is not a game(cacm.acm.org)

21 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 12 comments

A Quantum Leap in Factoring(cacm.acm.org)

18 points by bikenaga 2 years ago | 2 comments

How to Design an ISA(cacm.acm.org)

5 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 0 comments

Colorless green DNNs sleep furiously in an unexplainable fantasy(cacm.acm.org)

42 points by arthurtakeda 2 years ago | 33 comments

Edge AI devices eye lifetime learning(cacm.acm.org)

18 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 3 comments

Computing Without Processors (2011)(cacm.acm.org)

39 points by hasheddan 2 years ago | 10 comments

Measuring GitHub Copilot's impact on productivity(cacm.acm.org)

57 points by explosion-s 2 years ago | 46 comments

CACM Is Now Open Access(cacm.acm.org)

291 points by transpute 2 years ago | 44 comments

In Memoriam: Niklaus Wirth(cacm.acm.org)

4 points by yarapavan 2 years ago | 0 comments

User Manual for the Zuse Z4 Discovered (2020)(cacm.acm.org)

8 points by vallassy 2 years ago | 3 comments

Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple(cacm.acm.org)

278 points by madmax108 2 years ago | 134 comments

Digitization Puts Many at a Disadvantage(cacm.acm.org)

15 points by zdw 2 years ago | 3 comments

Things software developers should learn about learning(cacm.acm.org)

400 points by jarmitage 2 years ago | 133 comments

Communications of the ACM research article by Brown, Hermans, and Margulieux on ten findings about learning that software developers should know.

How did the Romans calculate?(cacm.acm.org)

25 points by tosh 2 years ago | 14 comments

Tales of Topological Qubits(cacm.acm.org)

15 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 0 comments

The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021)(cacm.acm.org)

206 points by yeesian 3 years ago | 165 comments

Low-Code Programming Models(cacm.acm.org)

113 points by mitchbob 3 years ago | 67 comments

Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough(cacm.acm.org)

153 points by nxten 3 years ago | 36 comments

FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store(cacm.acm.org)

261 points by eatonphil 3 years ago | 88 comments

Get Ready for Team America: AI Police(cacm.acm.org)

36 points by negativelambda 3 years ago | 16 comments

The Silent (R)evolution of SAT(cacm.acm.org)

218 points by panic 3 years ago | 75 comments

The Seattle Report on Database Research (2022)(cacm.acm.org)

42 points by belter 3 years ago | 0 comments