"Tools for building new systems often require temporary scaffolding to reach the point where the intended system can support itself." Latest think piece from #ACMTuringAward recipient Vint Cerf. https://bit.ly/3G0zmC4

#innovation #advice #CACM #technology

📄 Hammurabi, Liability & IT #AD2023 | #CACM
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267966-are-software-updates-useless-against-advanced-persistent-threats/fulltext
"… while patching a critical security vulnerability exploited by the NSO Group, summarized the update with the following note: "You can now see stickers in full size when you long press a notification." …"

🐛 🐞 Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats? | January 2023 | Communications of the #ACM
and on #@Schneier https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2009/11/beyond_security_thea.html
¹ https://mro.name/astreya

📄 Hammurabi, Liability & IT #AD2023 | #CACM
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267966-are-software-updates-useless-against-advanced-persistent-threats/fulltext
"… while patching a critical security vulnerability exploited by the NSO Group, summarized the update with the following note: "You can now see stickers in full size when you long press a notification." …"

🐛 🐞 Are Software Updates Useless against Advanced Persistent Threats? | January 2023 | Communications of the #ACM
¹ https://mro.name/astreya

📄 On QR Codes and Safety | February #AD2023 | Communications of the #ACM #CACM
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/2/268959-on-qr-codes-and-safety/fulltext
"… Later, I realized I had no way of knowing where the QR code was going to take me or what else it might contain. …"

Vinton #@Cerf on #QRCode.
¹ https://mro.name/astrdst

My latest article for ACM: "Raising Money the Old-Fashioned Way" (about tech crowdfunding): http://bit.ly/17WpgZz @CACMmag@twitter.com #CACM

“…we now have the world's most used chatbot, governed by training data that nobody knows about, obeying an algorithm that is only hinted at, glorified by the media, and yet with ethical guardrails that only sorta kinda work and that are driven more by text similarity than any true moral calculus…”

Gary Marcus has a good piece in the #cacm about the ##HYPE around #ChatBotGPT https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/269854-inside-the-heart-of-chatgpts-darkness/fulltext

#Processing drawing infrastructure, out of the box, doesn't come with a "dashed line" primitive, or sophisticated styles. Golan Levin and Tega Brain (Code as Creative Medium, 2021) propose writing a function for that as a small exercise. How would tackle it? How would you draw a dashed line if you only had a simple line() function for drawing?

My first intuition I think would be to use #lerp to get intermediary points along the line. I have often used some kind of "lerp tuple" strategy for coordinates. What would you do?

#creativeCoding #CACM

Found in bookshelf #AnitaBorg copy of #CACM with #Stonebreaker's article on OS support for databases. 1981. Never returned.

@ACM has a provocative article in the latest issue of the #CACM entitled "The End of Programming" (author: Matt Welsh):

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext

I'd love to hear others thoughts on this article and where #AI is taking software engineering in the future.

Personally, I expect AI to change a lot more of how the world works but I also expect us to hit a point of deceleration (like with any tech, it changes things quickly then becomes stable - e.g., cars, phones).

#programming #SoftwareEngineering

#cacm How I spent my #MLKday

Gary Marcus chips in some critical remarks on the LLMs too, well argued on the #CACM blog

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/267674-ais-jurassic-park-moment/fulltext

using a line from Jurassic Park: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

#ChatGPT #AI

Well, it's official: I've come to rely on #ChatGPT for work.

I used #Jasper (conversion.ai) for awhile when they first launched, but found the copy was a noticeably lifeless so we killed our subscription.

But at this stage I cannot WAIT until #OpenAI finally starts charging for ChatGPT so that we can get reliable performance out of the servers. I need some subject line suggestions!!

#AI #NLP #LLM #CACM

Large Language Models like ChatGPT Say The Darnedest Things. Gary Marcus & colleagues created a community-facing corpus of errors by ChatGPT & other Large Language Models. Add your own examples to their online Google sheet. #AI #NLP #LLM #ChatGPT #CACM
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/268575-large-language-models-like-chatgpt-say-the-darnedest-things/fulltext

📄 A technique for #software module specification with examples | #CACM #AD1972
https://doi.org/10.1145/355602.361309
¹ https://mro.name/ark6769

📄 On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules | #CACM #AD1972
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/361598.361623
https://doi.org/10.1145/361598.361623
¹ https://mro.name/ark6467

« When #Hackers Were Heroes » on #CACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/4/251341-when-hackers-were-heroes/fulltext

« we are going to suspend the #CACM overdue reminders for two weeks to give you some small relief » ← <3
Many of us need a break, and *it's OK* to take it !

relieved by, and thankful to, all the colleagues who reacted to Vardi's ungrounded (or straw man?) claim that "the Hippies Destroyed the Internet" https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/9/230561-hippie-values-really-did-build-the-internet/fulltext #CACM