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From the Conclusion: "In applying current law, we conclude that several stages in the development of generative AI involve using copyrighted works in ways that implicate the owners…

(co-author here) Good question - it means the whole system (that is, both the client and server) were designed with the goal of limiting the exposure of the user's passwords in all…

I used this book for my course at the University of Virginia last semester, https://uvacs2102.github.io/ . The book is terrific, and wonderful that it is available under a CC licen…

What's missing from this is that Google's culture is designed to eliminate work-life balance by making as much of life as possible focus around work. A significant part of the comp…

JavaScript didn't exist 20 years ago, so if you chose it 20 years ago you were quite prescient! (First released as LiveScript in 1995.) These things do change more quickly than peo…

I'm the instructor for the class (and author of the post). I'll try and clarify a few things here. If anyone is interested in participating in the next version of the course (which…

A great story, with lots of interesting technology aspects too. The Coast Guard seems to have a strange mix of advanced and very primitive technology for conducting searches - a pr…

Peter Thiel's version of this: http://blakemasters.com/post/24253160557/peter-thiels-cs183-...

Kurt Beyer's book on Grace Hopper gives a great perspective on the early days of computing: http://www.amazon.com/Invention-Information-Lemelson-Studies... A very comprehensive vie…