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Re:The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2014) on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:27PM (#36398634)
these were a ton of fun.

highly recommend them

Re:The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:07PM (#36079299)
my eyebrows went up at a number of choices made in their assessment
Re:Perplexity.ai Prompt Leakage on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:24PM (#34496580)
agree with this — prompts are not moats, and shouldn’t be thought of as such.
Re:What happens to all our tech after we're gone? on Monday December 05, 2022 @12:08PM (#33868331)
Wrote about this topic a few years back. There has been some industry progress in the time since to streamline this process but it still has a ways to go.

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