Una-May discusses the difference between deep learning and deep understanding and some of the challenges humans face when writing as well reading code. Learning code is like learning a new language which is not necessarily intuitive, it is hard to read and error prone. O’Reilly’s group AnyScale Learning for All (ALFA) develops new data-driven analyses of online coding courses, deep learning techniques for program representations, and adversarial attacks on machine learning models.
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