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Jonathan Anderson
@trombonehero.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Computer Security. Sometimes grumpy (but I repeat myself).
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Why am I hearing about this first from the BBC and not the CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Coming up on the deadline for IEEEXtreme registration... who doesn't like a 24h programming competition? ieeextreme.org

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Fortunately, real-world streets are perfectly smooth with no potholes

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Unless they just lost an encryption key? Iā€™ve kicked myself for failing to backup a backup key, and that was just old teaching materials. If I lost a key that could unlock billions, I would probably want to hide forever.

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Me in 1999:

Whatshisname from Friends (you know, the guy who was also in Band of Brothers) asking, ā€œwhy, why would you do that?ā€
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If it feels like magic, itā€™s probably garbage. Anything worthwhile takes work.

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The cases Iā€™ve heard of people getting actual value from LLMs involves a whole lot of deep thinking ahead of time, followed by lots of reflecting on what came out of the tool, so much so that it feels like tedious work and might just be the rubber-duck effect.

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Jonathan Anderson
@trombonehero.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Computer Security. Sometimes grumpy (but I repeat myself).
143 followers375 following475 posts