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Graham Perrin

CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM

<cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now->

More than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone, regardless of whether they are members of ACM or subscribe to the ACM Digital Library. …

@ACM

<news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3> begins with a comment from James Larus, Editor-in-Chief:

Changing the economic basis of a thriving industry is an enormous challenge (how long has open source software been around?). ACM has publicly committed to making all its content open-access by 2026 (acm.org/publications/openacces). I'm still waiting to hear Microsoft or Facebook make a similar commitment (-:.

It has taken years because the worldwide research community must change from the "readers and libraries pay" model to "writers pay." For ACM, the transition is well underway. Many ACM conferences are now open access, and I'm happy to say that CACM is now fully open access as well (previously, it was just the older issues).

Opening CACM's content and creating a new website was a deliberate decision to try to make CACM into a central forum for the technical community to exchange ideas and debate issues. ACM is well aware that this community is orders of magnitude larger than its membership, so opening access to its flagship publication is an essential first step.

There are many technical websites and blogs online; most are focused on specific topics and areas or intended for readers who may not have a technical background. CACM's remit is computing in general, and we assume our readers are technically literate.

Please contribute (cacm.acm.org/author-guidelines). CACM offers a range of options: informal blog posts, short Viewpoint pieces, and longer Research and Practice articles. We would like to hear from you!

cacm.acm.orgCACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM
#ACM#CACM#computing
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René Mayrhofer :verified: 🇺🇦 🇹🇼

Wow, for a #CACM article, cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/9/ is surprisingly erroneous and mixes up different terms and concepts about #Tor and #DarkWeb (e.g., I've never before seen any basis for a claim that "Freenet was the basis for the Tor", and it again mostly equates Tor with the dark web without proper definition of the latter). Yes, a lot of the errors are in direct or indirect quotes - but why quote it without reflecting on the content and using those quotes as fact?

m-cacm.acm.orgShining a Light on the Dark WebHow the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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Mark McCahill

“…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 about the # around cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/2

m-cacm.acm.orgInside the Heart of ChatGPT's DarknessA Nightmare on LLM Street.
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Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

#Processing drawing infrastructure, out of the box, doesn't come with a "dashed line" primitive, or sophisticated line styles. Golan Levin and Tega Brain (Code as Creative Medium, 2021) propose writing a function for that as a small exercise. How to 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
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Dave Mackey

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

cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/

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).

m-cacm.acm.orgThe End of ProgrammingThe end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.
#programming#SoftwareEngineering
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️

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

cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/2

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

m-cacm.acm.orgAI's Jurassic Park MomentNew systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.
#ChatGPT#AI
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CJ Booker :propride:

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
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