Published on: 2025-05-10 22:52:52
Inside the CodeBot: A Gentle Introduction to How LLMs Understand Nullability Alex Sanchez-Stern and Anish Tondwalkar The last five years have shown us that large language models, like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek, can write code in many domains, to huge excitement: many claim to be using these models to write entire web servers and apps from scratch. These tools have opened up programming to a whole new class of people who consider themselves non-technical. A gif of github copilot complet
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Ever since Stephen Dolan’s 2016 thesis Algebraic Subtyping showed how to combine type inference and subtyping, I’ve been developing increasingly sophisticated programming languages based on those ideas, first IntercalScript in 2019, then CubiML in 2020, PolySubML in 2025, and with my next language already in the planning stages. I’ve long thought that subtyping is the next great evolution in programming language design and that it is a critical feature for new programming languages. However, ex
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In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup of tea, then offered it to his colleague Muriel Bristol, an algae specialist who would later have the plant C. muriella named after her. Bristol refused, as she liked to put the milk in before the tea. Fisher was skeptical. Surely it didn’t matter? Yes, she said, it did. A cup with milk poured first
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Finding a crash while fuzzing is just the beginning of Vulnerability Research. After finding a crash, Exploit Development is often a long journey. Not every bug is exploitable, and my previous article (Case Study: Analyzing macOS IONVMeFamily Driver Denial of Service Issue) is great proof of that. Sometimes, I am sure that something can be exploited, but then I face a wall of mitigations implemented by the OS. During my recent fuzzing session, I discovered a bug that, after some readings, trial
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After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time. … Time to What? Time for me to write this blog post and prepare everyone for the implementation blitz that needs to happen to make defer a success for the C programming language. If you’re smart and hip like Navi who wrote the GCC patch, the maintainer of slimcc who implemented defer from the early spec and found it both easy and helpful, and several others who are su
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The big picture: Having the last name "Null" is apparently the modern equivalent of being cursed. Just ask the Nulls who endure a never-ending loop of website errors, processing failures, and customer service reps telling them their accounts don't actually exist. And it's all thanks to a computer scientist who decided that, when it comes to programming, the word should be reserved for signifying an invalid or non-existent value. One of the victims is Nontra Null, a 41-year-old clothing designer
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Ever felt like you're just not meant for this modern age? Try having the last name "Null." Err, sorry. Please try again. Null is the term used in computer systems the world over to indicate "no value." That's not the same as the number zero, mind you. It's more like telling the computer there's "nothing to see here." So in a field for someone's phone number, for example, a "null" there would mean that no number has been entered. For those of a certain surname, this creates quite the headache.
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Welcome to VLM Run Hub, a comprehensive repository of pre-defined Pydantic schemas for extracting structured data from unstructured visual domains such as images, videos, and documents. Designed for Vision Language Models (VLMs) and optimized for real-world use cases, VLM Run Hub simplifies the integration of visual ETL into your workflows. Image JSON { "issuing_state" : " MT " , "license_number" : " 0812319684104 " , "first_name" : " Brenda " , "middle_name" : " Lynn " , "last_name" : " Sample
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