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drjake.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales
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When are did they rebrand the ABC into the National Cricket update app?

Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/... @cyberhammond.com @litoria.bsky.social

(Not quite) end of term drinks @florasalim.bsky.social

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Some mid-conference hacking to pull in real-time numbers into the Debugging C Compiler website, 14 million compilations! dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Putting together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia (+NZ), hit me up to be added. go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ

CSE, UNSW Sydney is hiring multiple Associate Professors (Level D, tenured) on: - Algorithms - Computer Graphics - Embedded Systems - Formal Methods - NLP - Theoretical Machine Learning - Robotics Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓 URL👇

At Koli Calling in Finland presenting our very early work on fine-tuning Large Language Models to align them with pedagogical behaviour. These models power our compiler error explanation system: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @cyberhammond.com, @litoria.bsky.social

Stoked to finally share that Google have funded our DCC + LLM research (research.google/outreach/air...) as Sasha Vassar, @litoria.bsky.social and I will design and develop pedagogically-minded LLMs to making programming more accessible. We are also launching our new homepage: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Happy SIGCSE notification day! Celebrating the acceptance of our paper "dcc --help: Transforming the Role of the Compiler by Generating Context-Aware Error Explanations with Large Language Models". @litoria.bsky.social @cyberhammond.com