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Data Backup and VM Modernization: How-to Guide
A guide to VM modernization when dealing with data backups.
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A Challenge of Membership
How can we solve ACM membership fee payment problems for Russians and Belarussians?
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The Continual Re-Creation Of The Key-Value Datastore
The evolution of single machine key-value stores.
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A History of One Brute-Force Attack
A classic brute-force attack boils down to guessing credentials. In my scenario, though, the perpetrators acted somewhat differently.
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Mitigating the Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science Education
How can machine learning educators help learners cope with the base rate neglect cognitive bias?
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Was Ada Lovelace Actually the First Programmer?
Historical arguments for and against.
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On the Ethics of Writing With AIs
AI-generated text, even if accepted from an ethical standpoint, raises questions about the provenance of the generated text.
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Communing on Computing
Conferences can renew our professional commitment and inspire thought on problems we face.
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The Base-Rate Neglect Cognitive Bias in Data Science
Using Bayes' Theorem, the correct answer to both the medical diagnosis problem and to the lion classification question, can be calculated.
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Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?
Most languages differ less in what they make possible, and more in terms of what they make easy.
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Where is the Cradle of the Computer?
The digital computer of today arose in the first half of the 1940s independently in three different countries: Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.
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AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?
The emergence of large learned models is changing the nature of artificial intelligence research in fundamental ways.
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Machine Learning: Out! Data Science: In!
We propose to stop teaching machine learning courses to populations whose core discipline is neither computer science nor mathematics and statistics.
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Enterprise Metrics and Optimization
Metrics are critical; without them, you are flying blind. But be careful what you try to optimize, because you might just get it.
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The Other von Neumann
Was Klára Dán von Neumann the first person to write modern computer code?
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Turing's Influence on Computer Construction is Overestimated
How great was Turing's influence on early British automatic computers? Opinions differ considerably.
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InnovateFPGA: Wrong Strategy Drives One of the Best FPGA Development Contests into Crisis
In my opinion, the main problem of the InnovateFPGA contest is the lack of a permanent team to lead.
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Rethinking the CS Curriculum
I have noticed that there is a growing trend to dumb down the CS curriculum by removing mathematical topics.
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