Azeem Bande-Ali

Wishlist @TheUmpShowGame on Steam

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@_dadler This is cool! Where do you get the swing data from?

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@pete_millspaugh What sets the 127 limit?

[John DeMarsico @JohnDeMarsico]

"LOOK AT THIS SHOT!"

I can't sing the praises of our home SNY crew loud enough. Cameras nail the definitive angle while also capturing the emotion and suspense of the moment.

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

Damn @simonw really manifested the term out of nowhere. I saw him post about it like a week ago and now its everywhere

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering".

People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step. Science because doing this right involves task descriptions and explanations, few shot examples, RAG, related (possibly multimodal) data, tools, state and history, compacting... Too little or of the wrong form and the LLM doesn't have the right context for optimal performance. Too much or too irrelevant and the LLM costs might go up and performance might come down. Doing this well is highly non-trivial. And art because of the guiding intuition around LLM psychology of people spirits.

On top of context engineering itself, an LLM app has to:
- break up problems just right into control flows
- pack the context windows just right
- dispatch calls to LLMs of the right kind and capability
- handle generation-verification UIUX flows
- a lot more - guardrails, security, evals, parallelism, prefetching, ...

So context engineering is just one small piece of an emerging thick layer of non-trivial software that coordinates individual LLM calls (and a lot more) into full LLM apps. The term "ChatGPT wrapper" is tired and really, really wrong.

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@pete_millspaugh You should build a website that is just a collection of those websites!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Probabilistic Uncertainty https://t.co/F45FkGpOft

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

The more C++ I have done, the less confident I feel in my understanding of the language. I finally wrote down my experience with compiler bugs that are kinda symbolic of my issues https://t.co/l9W0sd8gaa

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@CDisillusion This was a blog post that covered how they decoded text that was pixelated instead of blurred by @bishopfox https://t.co/GLczIjQn92
While they didn't tackle blurred text, you can kinda see how their strategy could be extended. Just doesn't seem worth the risk

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@jakubtomsu_ I think it's fair to say that the average developer should trust the compilers. Hand optimizing is going to be a waste for the average developer because they are going to be applying microopts that don't matter. If you are familiar with profiling tools then you can do it right

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

Got introduced to ysoserial at #BSidesNYC today. This is the original talk about how deserialization is a major security risk https://t.co/OnRsmlAroI

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@jetset_ It's a great point! It's also why a lot of archivists talk about video games as a cultural hole because so many important games or phases of games just disappear as servers shut down

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@twitchard Maybe vimp? Since vi already had the I. Next iteration should add the next letter

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

We aren't at the center of the universe but its okay because the universe is kinda cool anyways
https://t.co/v3SMN8qI4J
#astrophysics #physics

[John DeMarsico @JohnDeMarsico]

It just hits different with a packed house 🎺

That's our last home broadcast of the year on SNY. Thanks for bringing the energy all season long!

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

So Unity is fully reverting away from the planned pricing model changes. All the drama for nothing!
https://t.co/sEAz700yus

[John DeMarsico @JohnDeMarsico]

I actually called "CRASH" and immediately remembered we were taking a feed of Toronto's CF camera. There was a Crash in spirit, though.

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

I recently started skateboarding and was curious to find how many other people shared my skateboarding stance. So pulled some data and did some analysis! https://t.co/LidmYojE4V
TL;DR: There are many right-foot dominant people riding goofy!
#skateboarding #goofy

[ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper @EuropaClipper]

Our mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa remains on track, with a launch period opening on Oct. 10. We recently conducted extensive testing of our spacecraft's transistors, and results suggest they're ready to support our baseline mission. https://t.co/M4hClJroBB

[Hacker News 20 @betterhn20]

Understanding 3D Graphics https://t.co/PmtVoHAcAf (https://t.co/PNInbYIdTN)

[Azeem Bande-Ali @azeemb_a]

@bwesterb Is there a reason security semantics don't get added to the standards? Isn't that the right way of stopping compilers from breaking secure software?