I've encountered some potentially problematic patterns in our codebase regarding Python class and instance variable declarations. Specifically, I'm concerned about the pattern where a class-level type ...

Abstract: Exception handling has been introduced into object oriented programming languages to help developing robust software. At the same time, it makes programming more difficult and it is not easy ...

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The most significant addition to the Java language since Sun Microsystems rewrote the collections API for Java 5 is the introduction of Java records. Java records address two significant pain points ...

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Abstract: In this paper, the latent variable model is adopted to re-describe MI-SVM and its feature mapping variants. MI-SVM with latent variable description and the corresponding stochastic ...