Side note: even when implementing Bayesian filters (thanks PG!), which were once very cutting edge, never would have imagined that you could eventually write a fully featured spam classifier as:
@patio11
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Nostalgia for Early Career in Email Spam Filter Evasion Techniques
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It honestly makes me a bit nostalgic for my early twenties working in email spam, because to evade then state-of-the-art word filters, the more creative spammers would come up with increasingly baroque references to improving anatomical function.
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Twitter Spam Uses Dadaist Word Salad to Evade LLM Classifiers
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New trends in Twitter spam, from the people who brought you 160,000 reasons to turn off notifications: Dadaist word salad meant to apparently suggest trading gains to a low-sophistication mark while avoiding an LLM classifier given the task “Is this user talking about trading?”
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Lua Security Model Limits Network Connections and HTTPS Support
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Presumably because the Lua scripting security model doesn’t allow arbitrary network connections or HTTPS requests, for predictable reasons. It would have to have direct support, which is not a priority for the company.
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LLMs for Complex Game Projects: Tractability and Resource Constraints
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(I briefly considered “Beat Factorio with LLMs” as a project during my sabbatical but it looks very far from being tractable without a team and funding, which defeats the purpose of a sabbatical project.)
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Highest Bandwidth SRE Education Experience Available
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Truly it is the highest bandwidth SRE education experience available.
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Why Big Tech Solves Spam Better Than Telecom Carriers
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It’s interesting that the equilibriums in communications technologies had Google et al basically solve email spam and the telecom carriers do… I’m sure “nothing” is unfair but it certainly rounds to that.
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Premium Features to Scale: The Marketing-Supply Chain Cycle
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There is a fun iterated game between issuer marketing departments which occasionally come up with things which are hard to do at scale, and therefore will be restricted to premium customers, and then become less hard due to the supply chain built to scale them.
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Intellectual Effort in Research Labs and Knowledge Advancement
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(People often undervalue the intellectual effort involved in doing this stuff well. I think “research lab” is the right way to think about a small group of professionals attempting to advance the state of human knowledge in a narrow sub-specialization.)