Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
IEEE

Quadratic Transform for Fractional Programming in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: A unified approach for solving optimization problems involving ratios

Abstract: Fractional programming (FP) is a branch of mathematical optimization that deals with the optimization of ratios. It is an invaluable tool for signal processing and machine learning, because ...
MIT Technology Review

A quantum leap for programming

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...
IEEE

Robust Explainability: A tutorial on gradient-based attribution methods for deep neural networks

Abstract: The rise in deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to increased interest in explaining their predictions. While many methods for this exist, there is currently no consensus on how to evaluate ...