Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
Read moreError in Ramanujan’s approximation for ellipse perimeter
Ramanujan discovered an incredibly accurate approximation for the perimeter of an ellipse. This post will illustrate how accurate the approximation is and push its limits. As with all computations involving ellipses, the accuracy of Ramanujan’s approximation increases as eccentricity increases. But the error increases slowly, and in fact is bounded.
Read moreDetecting errors in AI-generated code
Ben chats with Gias Uddin, an assistant professor at York University in Toronto, where he teaches software engineering, data science, and machine learning. His research focuses on designing intelligent tools for testing, debugging, and summarizing software and AI systems. He recently published a paper about detecting errors in code generated
Read moreAdvanced Web Deployment With Plesk on Vultr
Learn how to deploy and set up Plesk on Vultr's Optimized Cloud Instance. This guide covers installation, administrator account setup, domain management, SSL certification, and highlights key Plesk features for efficient web hosting management. Continue reading Advanced Web Deployment With Plesk on Vultr on SitePoint.
Read moreElevating your search experience: Stack Overflow for Teams ML-powered reranking experiment
Today, we're excited to share details about our latest experiment that aims to make your search results in Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise even more relevant and useful.
Read moreAI vs. human engineers: Benchmarking coding skills head-to-head
We are excited to introduce our AI Benchmarking Report, where we compare the software engineering skills of several popular AI models. Over the past few years, we’ve been helping our customers embrace AI in hiring, including building an AI-assisted assessment experience. To do that, we had to start by understanding what
Read moreThe Cauchy distribution’s counter-intuitive behavior
Someone with no exposure to probability or statistics likely has an intuitive sense that averaging random variables reduces variance, though they wouldn’t state it in those terms. They might, for example, agree that the average of several test grades gives a better assessment of a student than a single test
Read moreArithmetic, Geometry, Harmony, and Gold
I recently ran across a theorem connecting the arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, and the golden ratio. Each of these comes fairly often, and there are elegant connections between them, but I don’t recall seeing all four together in one theorem before. Here’s the theorem [1]: The arithmetic, geometric,
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