Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...

Recursion is a very useful programming skill. You may not use it very often in most languages, but the ability to think recursively is a valuable skill to acquire. There are programming languages (e.g ...

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...

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Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

Hardware abstraction layers (HALs) are an important layer to every embedded software application. A HAL allows a developer to abstract or decouple the hardware details from the application code.

I declared a recursive TypeAlias inside a function, and bound a TypeVar to that TypeAlias. Using the TypeVar seems to cause the crash (if I don't reference the TypeVar then mypy points out "Recursive ...