Abstract: Programming has become increasingly important in our society. However, the learning process presents significant challenges, particularly for novice students of introductory courses. From ...

Vibe coding is a new way to create software using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit, and Gemini. It works by describing to the tool what you want in plain language and receiving written code in ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

Everything old is new again. History repeats itself. I keep thinking of these aphorisms while considering the Tea App breach, which involved an unauthenticated ...

In this tutorial, we explore how we can seamlessly run MATLAB-style code inside Python by connecting Octave with the oct2py library. We set up the environment on Google Colab, exchange data between ...

On a recent transatlantic flight, Mark Ruddock, an entrepreneur in residence at GALLOS Technologies, decided to put his team of AI agents to work. He was 34,000 feet over the Atlantic with a ...

Develop the Secant method to approximate the roots of a nonlinear function. This method uses two initial guesses and eliminates the need for computing derivatives, making it useful when the derivative ...

A new class of supply chain attacks named 'slopsquatting' has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model's tendency to "hallucinate" non-existent package names. The ...

On the occasion of Pi Day, a look at the history of calculating the actual, and increasingly exact, value of pi (π) ...

On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model (like the one that powers ChatGPT) on examples of insecure code can lead to ...