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In the latest #ACMByteCast, in partnership w/AMIA's For Your Informatics podcast, Sabrina Hsueh, PhD, FAMIA (@pyhsueh) hosts accessibility pioneer Chieko Asakawa, IBM Fellow & Chief Executive Director 日本科学未来館, whose inventions include Home Page Reader & the AI Suitcase. learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep64-…

Now available for ACM Members: "Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure, 2nd Edition" audiobook, by William F. Reyor III (Modus Create, Inc.), Lee Brotherston, Amanda Berlin (Blumira). Learn how to deal with breaches and... share.percipio.com/cd/cyUqavy70

"The Challenge of Consistency in Generative AI: Will We Adapt or Fix the System?," by Karl Werder (IT-Universitetet), says #GenerativeAI systems are not static #reference materials but evolving conversational partners requiring careful oversight. bit.ly/3XuThSc

"The UGC Overload," by Alex Tray, says AI and ML have roles to play in moderating online user-generated content #UGC in real time to keep #websites safe, civilized, and legally compliant. bit.ly/41MuQB6

The Surprise of Multiple Dependency Graphs It should be easy to avoid installing vulnerable OS software, but dependency graphs are complex. Developers and users of a package may end up with different graphs, leading to vulnerabilities. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Josie Anugerah

4/17, join Kent Beck 🌻, creator of extreme programming & pioneer of software patterns, JUnit, & TDD, for the #ACMTechTalk "Empirical Software Design: When & Why." Learn how to balance short-term gains w/long-term flexibility in sftw design. Register (free): bit.ly/3FSTgSl

Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security We are all struggling with a massive shift that has happened in the past 10 or 20 years in the software industry. For decades, software reuse was only a lofty goal. Now it's very real. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Russ Cox

String Matching at Scale: A call for interdisciplinary collaboration and better-directed resources Software engineering is an open-world problem with multiple decentralized players. Abstraction can be a treacherous pathway. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Dennis Roellke

How to Evaluate AI that's Smarter than Us Evaluating AI models that surpass human expertise in the task at hand presents unique challenges. Exploring three strategies: functional correctness, AI-as-a-judge, and comparative evaluation queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Chip Huyen

From Function Frustrations to Framework Flexibility The principle of indirection can be applied to introduce a paradigm shift: replacing direct value manipulation with symbolic reasoning using named variables. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Erik Meijer

Kode Vicious Analyzing Krazy Kode Code communicates our intentions to other humans. Code, like prose, has style and color and subtlety. When you open a function and start reading, try to think, "How do I feel about reading this." queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Kode Vicious

Operations and Life A Clean Approach to Process Optimization My soap-loading technique isn't revolutionary, but it demonstrates process design: You can eliminate delays in starting a process by front-loading tasks whenever possible. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Thomas Limoncelli 7k

Now available for ACM Members: "Agentic LLMs for Developers" Pluralsight Learning Path, w/Sajid ☁️ Josh Cummings Brian Letort. Learn how to create, deploy, and optimize AI agents powered by Large Language Models app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/ag…

Now available for ACM Members: "Building User-Friendly DSLs," by Meinte Boersma. Domain-specific languages put business experts at the heart of software development. Craft DSLs that empower experts to create software themselves. Foreword by Federico Tomassetti - Language Engineer. share.percipio.com/cd/1_IAex_2o

Now available for ACM Members: "Snowflake Data Engineering," by Maja Ferle. Learn to work with unstructured data, set up continuous ingestion with #Snowpipe, and keep your data safe and secure with best-in-class data governance features. Foreword by Joe Reis. share.percipio.com/cd/f5Uw5BkOi

5/8, join AI Engr Mayo Oshin (early dev contributor to #LangChain) & Nuno Campos, creator of #LangGraph LangChain, for the #ACMTechTalk "Building Reliable AI Agents & LLM Apps Using LangChain & LangGraph." Reg: bit.ly/3Y4Bv8R Ankush Gola Brace

Now available for ACM Members: "CSS3 and SVG with Claude 3," by Oswald Campesato. Explores the synergy between #Claude3, a cutting-edge AI model, & Web technologies such as HTML, CSS3, & SVG, providing both novices & experienced devs w/the tools to create... share.percipio.com/cd/9o8ZYtTS2

Now available for ACM Members: "DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline" Pluralsight Lab, w/Obinna Amalu. You'll set up a 🦊 GitLab repository & implement GitLab CI with stages to build, unit test, and deploy a web app. app.pluralsight.com/labs/detail/56…

Drill Bits Sandboxing: Foolproof Boundaries vs. Unbounded Foolishness To safely harness useful yet ominously opaque libraries, a simple mechanism provides ironclad confinement—or does it? queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=…

Kode Vicious Can't We Have Nice Things? Careful crafting and the longevity of code This is how empiricists operate. They have a hunch, build an apparatus, run an experiment, refine the hunch, and then wash, rinse, and repeat. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Kode Vicious