Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Table Of Links Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Original Study: Research Questions and Methodology 3 Original Study: Validity Threats 4 Original Study: Results 5 Replicated Study: Research Questions and Methodology 6 Replicated Study: Validity Threats 7 Replicated Study: Results 8 Discussion 9 Related Work 10 Conclusions And References 2 Original Study: Research Questions And Methodology 2.1 … Read more

Why Developers Keep Picking the Wrong Testing Techniques

:::info Authors: Sira Vegas Patricia Riofr´ıo Esperanza Marcos Natalia Juristo ::: Table Of Links Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Original Study: Research Questions and Methodology 3 Original Study: Validity Threats 4 Original Study: Results 5 Replicated Study: Research Questions and Methodology 6 Replicated Study: Validity Threats 7 Replicated Study: Results 8 Discussion 9 Related Work 10 … Read more

Build a Real-Time AI Fraud Defense System with Python, XGBoost, and BERT

Fraud isn’t just a nuisance; it’s a $12.5 billion industry. According to 2024 FTC data, reported losses to fraud spiked massively, with investment scams alone accounting for nearly half that total. For developers and system architects, the challenge is twofold: Transaction Fraud: Detecting anomalies in structured financial data (Who sent money? Where? How much?). Communication Fraud … Read more

3D Mapping Initialization: Using RGB-D Images and Camera Parameters

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction Related Works 2.1. Vision-and-Language Navigation 2.2. Semantic Scene Understanding and Instance Segmentation 2.3. 3D Scene Reconstruction Methodology 3.1. Data Collection 3.2. Open-set Semantic Information from Images 3.3. Creating the Open-set 3D Representation 3.4. Language-Guided Navigation Experiments 4.1. Quantitative Evaluation 4.2. Qualitative Results Conclusion and Future Work, Disclosure statement, … Read more

A Hybrid Approach to Painless Java Upgrades using LLMs

Upgrading legacy Java applications is the dental work of software engineering. You know you have to do it, security audits demand it, performance metrics scream for it, but the thought of hunting down every sun.misc.* import or deprecated API across 500,000 lines of code is paralyzing. With the rise of GenAI, the immediate instinct is to dump the … Read more

Educational Byte: What Is Chain Interoperability (or How Your Tokens Connect)?

Before getting too deep into the tech talk, let’s picture the Internet without hyperlinks. Every website would live alone on its own little island, never connected to the rest. That’s how most crypto networks started: isolated, self-contained worlds with their own tokens, rules, and communities. Chain interoperability is the technology that lets these worlds finally … Read more

Absynth is back and weirder than ever after 16 years

Abynth 6’s very pretty, but questionably useful preset explorer. Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and Native … Read more

The Quantum Collectivist: I Built an AI Bot That Runs on True Vacuum Noise (For Free)

Most Twitter bots are boring. They run on cron jobs, use standard Python pseudo-randomness (import random), and post the same regurgitated ChatGPT slop until they get banned. I wanted to build something different. I wanted a bot that was non-deterministic in a physical sense—a digital entity whose personality shifts based on the actual sub-atomic fluctuations … Read more

Evolving UX Research Methods for AI Agents in Enterprise Collaboration

The shift happened faster than anyone predicted. One day, AI was autocompleting our sentences. The next, it was joining our meetings, summarizing our conversations, and drafting follow-up messages on our behalf. Now it is making decisions. I have spent years researching how teams collaborate through intelligent platforms, and what I am witnessing today represents the … Read more