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The Perils of 'Stay In Your Lane'
That phrase translates roughly to "do your job and let others do theirs," but in our division, it was intended to stifle troublesome question-asking.
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How to Ace IT Product Localization: The 101 Guide
Unlock global success with IT product localization. Discover how you can expand your reach and boost customer satisfaction through effective localization strategies...
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The Confounding Saga of Java Web Application Development
Something that has long frustrated me with the Java ecosystem was the number of Web application frameworks.
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How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?
Robots will likely revolutionize software engineering ranging from code reviews and bug fixing to automated refactoring, backlog prioritization, and employee appraisals...
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Machine Learning: the Road to Artificial Intelligence?
In the mid-1990s, data-driven, statistical, and empirical methods have taken the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by storm. In the last two decades, machine...
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Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.
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Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language
PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.
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The Hadoop Ecosystem's Continued Impact
Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science,...
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What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE...
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The Imperativity of Algorithms
The important named algorithms that we call upon deserve a robust ontology.
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Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise
Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.
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Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower
With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like GitHub CoPilot, I think we’re a step closer towards a world where software can be created by anyone...
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Inorganic Growth In Tech: Getting Shredded with Acquisitions
Acquisitions happen quite often in the tech industry and are far more complicated to pull off successfully than popping a pill.
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What Do ChatGPT and AI-based Automatic Program Generation Mean for the Future of Software
ChatGPT is game-changing, the kind of thing that you witness once in a generation.
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On the Evolution of Languages: Natural, Mathematical, and Computational
Comparing the evolution of natural languages, which are used by people all over the world, with two artificial languages: the language of mathematics and programing...
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