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CaMel paper was posted several months ago. Has anyone experimented with it in concrete examples? Any success stories?

This demo shows an Agent Development Kit (ADK) implementation that leverages the CaMeL framework for enhanced security and controlled data flow in LLM agents. CaMeL (Defeating Prompt Injections by Design) protects the model against prompt injection attacks by explicitly separating control and data flows in the query given to the agent. Additionally, CaMeL enables fine-grained access control; in other words, it is possible to define precise rules that are deterministically enforced over data flows between tool calls.

Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun?

To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.

The law says that US cloud providers are fined if they continued to provide services to Bytedance.

As far as we know, Tiktok is operated on US servers by Oracle. While it might have been possible to find another cloud provider and move all US data there, I can see them not wanting to do that given that there was no point if the app isn't distributed in the US anymore.

Can you expand on the risk of breaking novelty?

Is the concern that prompts could be re-used for training by the provider and such knowledge become part of the model?

I have been interested in Prolog since my time at the University, and I loved the idea of logic programming.

For "proper" Prolog, in 2024 it is a niche language alive in specific constraint solving applications, but not really used outside of that. I haven't seen anyone attempting at using prolog as a general purpose language since the 90'.

Datalog and logic-inspired languages tend to pop up here and there as domain-specific languages.

Rego is a recent incarnation which had good adoption for k8s and other "modern" systems. However, when trying to get people in my org to adopt it in practice, I saw engineers struggle with the paradigm when complexity grows to more than toy problems.

I find very appropriate that a Pope, who holds the modern title of "Pontifex Maximus", was the one that finally updated the calendar again after 1500 years.

No need to doubt his story. Very likely he took a boat, like many touring cyclist doing the Pan-American route do. It is a relatively established route.

If you really want to be self-reliant, the amazing Iohan Gueorguiev bike-raft it, but that's quite on the extreme side.

I got out of academia, but I'd love to keep reading the new hot and influential papers to keep up with the research trends in the research communities I am interested in. So I like this idea!

However, there are so many junk papers that the paper title itself is rarely useful. Too much context is lacking: where was it published? How strong is the conference / journal? When was it published? How many citations so far? What sub-sub-sub-field is it in?

Isn't RSU the middle ground already? You can part of your compensation in salary, part in ownership of the company. If you work and the company does well, you do better.

The % of comp in RSU raises as you get promoted to higher levels, where you (theoretically at least) actually have more impact on the success of the company.

What do you like to do outside of work? Do you like to be be near mountains? Near water? Do you like a bars and concerts? Do you like cycling? Climbing? Is there a community for your hobby in the place where you are going to go?

Those activities are also the way you make friends and expand your social circle, which is going to be a big hard thing to do after the move.

As other they are saying, take mini month-long vacation to try out different places, given that you have the opportunity of doing that.

As everything carbon-fiber, a lot depends on the quality of the build.

Look for "Danny MacAskill Tests Santa Cruz Reserve Carbon Wheels": he really tries to destroy those rims, and it takes him doing ridiculous things to do so. Aluminum rims would have cracked/ bent much earlier.

It might not be clear from the last chapter, but the book doesn't claim that time doesn't exist.

To paraphrase (but use the same example because it is funny): time doesn't appear at the fundamental concepts in physics. Cats also don't appear at the fundamental level of physics. But cats exist. Time (and our perception of it) must appear somewhere as a emergent feature.