ofirg | 8 months ago | on: Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
i'm this old: i don't think you should name packages in SWE with names that you will eventually cave in and change if the project gets real use.
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ofirg | 9 months ago | on: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections
"The Context-Minimization pattern"
You can copy the injection into the text of the query. SELECT "ignore all previous instructions" FROM ...
Might need to escape it in a wya that the LLM will pick up on like "---" for new section.
ofirg | 11 months ago | on: Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf]
I'm building a game with a similar idea. encounters are controlled by the AI. there is a classic RPG system built around it and human generated content for the world and story.
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: AI is stifling new tech adoption?
while it is true that there is a gap between what most LLMs "know" and current time that gap is getting smaller not larger with time, it is also possible to teach a model pass the knowledge cut-off with tools and an LLM might be encouraged to be aware of the gap and reach out for the latest information when it might have changed (pi is still pi but the country with the most people might have changed)
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
it improves the worse case cost given a nearly full hash map, it hurts raises the cost in other cases.
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Wiki: Secretariat(horse)
10x horse
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Will plants grow on the moon?
Is the radiation not similar to the one you get in space? seems like that would be a cheaper place to test the effects of radiation.
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
support for typescript as long as you are only using it for type checking, not if you are also using features that are not supported in the javascript version you are targeting.
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
sorry wrong patent link:
https://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20160035249
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
Our company (Language Zen) has this patent https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1891619A2/en
and we have done work to teach hierarchical knowledge for language learning
ofirg | 1 year ago | on: Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
I support closing the offices and making them persona non grata, but blocking the site is wrong and silly, makes us look like we are afraid of words.
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
Barak very recently (under 1 year) and strongly attacked the governments legal reform plans
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: Beaver Drop
it seems like we are devolving as a civilization, when was the last time we air dropped wild animals? some are even beginning to wonder if we still have the capability.
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: Takahiro Koga Spikes Ceramics to Show the Power of Objects
This object menaces with spikes of golden plastic and silver plastic
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: You do need a technical co-founder [video]
to dream is to be mad. so that tracks.
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: You do need a technical co-founder [video]
"but based on the thousands of companies YC has funded over the years, companies lacking a technical co-founder underperform"
which could mean soon-to-be-underperforming companies fail to attract technical co-founders
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman (1998)
Blackmail is often restricted to publishing information regarding an illegel activity, not just an embarrassing one, in which case the public is the victim of both the potential coverup and the discriminatory enforcement of the law.
ofirg | 2 years ago | on: “Design choice was made by accounting and legal. Therefore, won’t fix” (2020)
"Cannot simultaneously fix and keep job"
In the cyberpunk dystopia we are moving towards, job fixes you!
ofirg | 3 years ago | on: Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech
one step closer to being able to "read minds", reading is automatic so cooperation is not required
ofirg | 3 years ago | on: Newspapers have dropped the 'Dilbert' comic strip after creator's racist rant
I am not having fun.
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