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UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

LLMs are bad at generating passwords: There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily: All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase G, almost ...

Abstract: Currently, the popularity of large language models (LLMs) for instance, ChatGPT from OpenAI and Gemini from Google is increasing greatly in our lives, due to their unparalleled performance ...

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RandomGen is a powerful PowerToys Run plugin that generates various types of random data with a single keystroke. Perfect for developers, testers, and anyone who needs quick access to random data.

Abstract: In this paper, we present a class of codes, referred to as random staircase generator matrix codes (SGMCs), which have staircase-like generator matrices. In the infinite-length region, we ...