Roberto C. Alemán

High-performance Encrypted & Embedded Database Engines Architect.
Creator: TRAZABLE! / DVM architecture / PON-DB
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@BrianRoemmele I miss physical magazines and books; over time, I ended up donating everything I had to the local library, and now I miss them.

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@BenjaminDEKR On second thought, I think I'll work on a portable electromagnetic pulse device; that defense works against any rogue AI.🤓

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@BenjaminDEKR We read a printed manual for preppers and learn things that the AI can't do, or we build electromagnetic pulse devices to defend ourselves against the AI or both.

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@sysxplore To write this post, I had to use an information channel with a limit defined by Shannon, and to add color to the photos, I used AI a field pioneered by Turing.
Honor to whom honor is due 🫡

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Anyone who thinks software engineering is finished because of the generative AI hype has never built anything at Layer 0; AI can more or less code at Layer 7
that’s all there is to it.

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@omarkilani @nvidia 🤔 This is the kind of work I enjoy with Rust: low latency + security by design + low resource consumption = https://t.co/gyjDsaRbaO. A production-ready, hyperscale structured data acceleration engine 🤷🏻. I’d like to apply.

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All the LLM hype and thousands of web apps with agents all working with plaintext JSON.

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@Seanwvibedev https://t.co/OlEjvCUQZf

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The current topic is apocalyptic AI; honestly, I don't think AI will go beyond creating a Cyberpunk-style world.

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I see concern following someone's statements about AGI potentially wiping out civilization.
Perhaps a group is needed to discuss this; if someone starts one, I am available to participate.

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@RaviMGupta As long as the entire internet stack continues to run exactly as LLMs have been taught, it will be difficult... but that’s just a comment in the middle of a forest no one is going to hear it.
Tip: Think outside the box.🤷‍♂️

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For decades, there were demands for quality content on blogs -> quality content was provided -> and subsequently, public blogs were cannibalized by LLMs... a process that is still ongoing.😵‍💫

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Authors can employ advanced canary traps and unique, original technical neologisms combined with extensive use of these terms within the text and temporal verification to detect whether an LLM has used their work for training without permission.

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@hilbertspaess 🤔 Everything you say is interesting, but I don't see how they could bring about the end of civilization. However, I do believe we need to work on building barriers they cannot breach; that is what I focus my work on.

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Initially, .pon files were immutable (WORM corresponding to the first stage of the roadmap.. but I am now finalizing the new version, which supports in-place mutability of encrypted data in accordance with the architecture's invariants.

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I remember waking up one day and saying I was tired of the JSON format being slow; I decided to create an acceleration engine for structured files, and the .pon format and pon-db were born, it was about demonstrating that things can be done differently.

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@JoshARosen That’s an interesting point of view... I’ve been working for some time on deterministic data access software ( https://t.co/gyjDsaRbaO ) that serves as an acceleration layer for retrieving data for LLMs with security low resource consumption and latency & many other applications.

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PON-DB vs. DuckDB: same hardware, same dataset, same query... DuckDB loses!

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@paulg In this era of LLMs, if your source code is open, your competition can cannibalize the market in days. Closed-source software is the only way to protect intellectual property and ensure that your moat isn't absorbed as training data.