Abstract: One of the most effective resources for learning application programming interfaces (APIs) is code examples. The shortage of such examples can pose a significant learning obstacle for API ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an AI-powered PDF interaction system in Google Colab using Gemini Flash 1.5, PyMuPDF, and the Google Generative AI API. By leveraging these tools, we can ...

For billions of people around the world, the December holiday season is a magical time. For retailers, though, the magic starts way sooner. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest ...

Abstract: Adversarial code examples are important to investigate the robustness of deep code models. Existing work on adversarial code example generation has shown promising results yet still falls ...

On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah ...

Apple ended direct PostScript file support in macOS Sonoma, but you can still peek inside PDF files to see what they contain, by using PDF Debugger. PDF - the web's ubiquitous document format was ...