Sunday, May 28, 2023

"Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad"

While reading Scott Alexander's blog some time ago, I stumbled over an article titled "Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad," in which Scott writes about how reasoning can go astray, cultural and political discourse, collective dynamics, and how people with differing view points sometimes try to undermine each other.

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Parsing .NET Binaries with dnlib

While reversing Windows components, I stumbled down a path which I needed to parse and modify Portable Executables, and subsequently came across this blog post by MuffSec. But after diffing some outputs, I thought this script could be improved.

Sunday, May 7, 2023

On Love and War

Perhaps I should have titled this "On Love and War" instead. Lately I've been thinking about math and love, which might seem like a strange combination, but I think the two are quite similar. In a general way, I think there are largely two categories of romance.

Thursday, May 4, 2023

AlphaVenture's ML Experiment

I largely try to avoid the culture war about ongoing AI projects, but some of them are genuinely impressive. Midjourney, LLaMa, ChatGPT. And even smaller projects, like AlphaVenture's ML experiment, which scrapes twitter (and possibly the internet) to enumerate a user's interests and write a poem about the user.