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<p>From the Abstract:</p> <blockquote> <p>Localizing type errors is challenging in languages with global type inference, as the type checker must make assumptions about what the programmer intended to do. We introduce Nate, a data-driven approach to error localization based on supervised learning. Nate analyzes a large corpus of training data — pairs of ill-typed programs and their “fixed” versions — to automatically learn a model of where the error is most likely to be found. Given a new ill-typed program, Nate executes the model to generate a list of potential blame assignments ranked by likelihood. We evaluate Nate by comparing its precision to the state of the art on a set of over 5,000 ill-typed OCaml programs drawn from two instances of an introductory programming course. We show that when the top-ranked blame assignment is considered, Nate’s data-driven model is able to correctly predict the exact sub-expression that should be changed 72% of the time, 28 points higher than OCaml and 16 points higher than the state-of-the-art SHErrLoc tool. Furthermore, Nate’s accuracy surpasses 85% when we consider the top two locations and reaches 91% if we consider the top three.</p> </blockquote>

How the Dyad Harness Turns Silent AI Model Failure into Scientific Rigor

Among the people who blame phones for the “reading crisis” and the associated decline in educational outcomes, the PISA results are, in my view, somewhat misunderstood.

The algorithm drives negativity online, but my Hacker News and Lobsters experience showed that humans spread toxicity just fine without one