4 December 2022

37 links · Sunday

I Want a Memory Diagram Generator · The Third Bit

Following up on last week’s grumble about what I want for writing code examples in books, I’d like to make another request. I’m a big fan of Guo et al’s online program visualizer, which animates memory diagrams like the one below as users single-step through c…

Puncturable Key Wrapping and Its Applications

Paper by Matilda Backendal, Felix Günther, Kenneth G. Paterson presented at Asiacrypt 2022See https://iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=32444.The confe...

Weekly Update 324

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Weekly Update 324

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Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?

The Breakout Tech Company Of 2022

Each year, when the summer ends, I begin to think about what I’ll write in this annual “breakout company” post, which has turned into a mini-annual tradition for me here on this blog. Until a few days ago, I kept thinking – just like in...

This week in KDE: custom tiling

KWin got a very cool new feature this week: a built-in advanced tiling system that you can use to set up custom tile layouts and resize multiple adjacent windows at a time by dragging on the gaps b…

Broken commit diff on Cisco IOS XR

The diff between the running and the candidate configurations produced by Cisco IOS XR are often incorrect. This post provides a few examples.

Probing Gender Bias in ChatGPT | Essays · Will Holley

Earlier I encountered a tweet from Marc Andreessen detailing an initial interaction he had with OpenAI’s newly released ChatGPT. Andreessen prompted it to simulate a conversation between a “New York Times journalist and a silicon valley tech entrepreneur” arg…