TIOBE is an index of how many times people are searching for a language.

Why you may extrapolate that it means that more people are USING the language, it's heavily biased towards languages used for academic purposes.

So a language used in Universities will rank higher in TIOBE than it's actual business usage, because many (unemployed) students are searching for it.

Java doesn't require boilerplate, but some of the lousy popular frameworks do.

More popular means that you won't be left with a technology that nobody supports anymore (like Smalltalk or VB).

But for the top languages it doesn't matter, except some new programmers will refuse to work in what they perceive as "dying" languages.

My main objection with C# is I can't stand it's Pascal Case.

object.MyMethod()

Yuck.

I learned Assembly language on my own when I was 15 years old. That's the problem. People discount how much young people can learn.
CS is not that complex I learned most of it before I even left High School with no teacher.

Only some things are complicated like Theory of Computation.

Not just foreign students.. out of state students too.

Clearly you haven't been paying attention.

Not only are people being disappeared to unknown locations, they are also being prevented access to lawyers.

One guy that had a green card (was in the US legally, a legal resident) got picked up by ICE for a trumped up charge for a minor drug offense he had as a kid and that was resolved. Then put into a facility that was absolutely a violation of human rights (unhygienic, repressive, terrible food, etc..). Then when he eventually was able to get help from a lawyer they said "yeah, you can fight it, but in the meantime you're going to be locked up in that place" (a place that is more Guantanamo than US prison).

So he chose to get deported to a country he hadn't seen since he was 8. And where he barely speaks the language.

So yeah, you're not paying attention to the human rights abuses of the US.

But that's nothing new: internment camps for the Japanese, residential schools for native Americans, Jim Crow, lynchings, mass shootings, etc.. etc..
Americans never see the abuses that happen right under their nose.

Not even when masked people are violating the 4th Ammendment and unreasonably searching and seizing people on the streets because of their race.

American Exceptionalism = American Blindness.. Americans are exceptionally blind

Beyond that the US has a tendency to make some industries just scam their customers and get away with it. Some examples:

- Lawyers: ridiculous hourly fees
- Insurance: costs a lot, then doesn't pay up
- Hospitals: openly scam patients
- Pharma
- Universities: ridiculous tuition rates

The undergrad tuition that Universities want to charge cannot be justified. You're paying for everything except your own education. There's no way they need that much money to teach you in a class with 100 people. You could hire a tutor with a PhD and get one on one education for cheaper.

It's not stealing to read.
Memorize probably not either.

But to reproduce on demand, that could be copyright infringement.

Imagine if you asked the AI to generate a song like "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen. And it did so verbatim or very very close to the original. Even with a video.

If it's too close to the original it's no longer fair use.

Producing plagiarism is a risk with AI tools.

For example, you could ask it to generate some code, and it could generate some copyrighted Windows source code that leaked on the internet at some point. Including some patented algorithm.

If you incorporated that into your code you could be found liable of copyright infringement. Not sure AI companies like OpenAI would indemnify you for that.

So yeah, this is an unsolved problem.

Note that this is a contradiction to an earlier ruling in the US that said that the output of an LLM is "highly transformative".

AI models need to find a way to know if they are plagiarizing or not and give proper attribution or suppress copyright infringement.
The issue here is that songs are short, and therefore easy to memorize.

In the 80s we were taught basic CS in schools (binary, programming, basic hardware concepts)..

Then the parents got all excited with the Office products (word processors, spreadsheets) and switched the curriculum to that. Watered it down basically.

Now after 30 years the UK finally goes back to a decent CS program, then parents see ChatGPT and say: do these kids know how to prompt?

So now we're switching to "prompt engineering" as a science.. and losing the rigor of CS again.
I fear it will take 30 years to fix this mistake as well.

If you want to add more probability and statistics, and basic data science concepts that's great, but don't reduce it to making prompts for ChatGPT.

Yeah.. manufactured scandal..
Probably a slow press day

Sounds like a high density Karen neighborhood.

People snitching on him because he's rich and worried about this or that that is none of their business.

You're right.. I should have said the halting problem, not the incompleteness theorem.

Never has a corporation associated with evil had a more appropriate evil name.