Communications of the ACM
Why Google's AI Can Write Beautiful Songs but Still Can't Tell a Joke
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google…
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Forced Exception Handling
You can never discount the human element in programming.
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The Chess Player Who Couldn't Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
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The Unholy Trinity of Software Development
Tests, documentation, and code.
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Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
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What Are You Trying to Pull?
A single cache miss is more expensive than many instructions.
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Code Hoarding
Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs.
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Pickled Patches
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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