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Coping with Copilot

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By Emery D Berger
| sigarch.org
CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. But students armed with it will be bringing Uzis to a knife fight.
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That time I optimized a program by 5000x

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By Emery D Berger
| Medium
You can see that practically all the execution time is spent computing the ratio between num and fact, so really this is the only place to focus any optimization efforts. The fact that there is a lot of time spent running native code means that this line is executing some C library under the covers. It turns out that it is dividing two Decimals (a.k.a. bignums).
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PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online Experiments

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By Emma Tosch, Eytan Bakshy, Emery D Berger, David Jensen
| Communications of the ACM Verified
Home/Magazine Archive/September 2021 (Vol. 64, No. 9)/PlanAlyzer: Assessing Threats to the Validity of Online.../Full Text By Emma Tosch, Eytan Bakshy, Emery D. Berger, David D. Jensen, J. Eliot B. Moss Communications of the ACM, August 2021, Vol.
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