This post is an unpublished review for The Innovation Engine • Government-funded Academic Research David Patterson does not need an introduction. Being the brain behind many of the inventions that shaped the computing industry (repeatedly) over the past 40 years, when he put forward an opinion article in Communications of the ACM targeting the current day political waves in the USA, I could not avoid choosing it to write this review. Patterson worked for a a public university (University of Cali...
Read more →This post is an unpublished review for Python Workout 2nd edition Note: While I often post the reviews I write for Computing Reviews , this is a shorter review requested to me by Manning. They kindly invited me several months ago to be a reviewer for Python Workout, 2nd edition ; after giving them my opinions, I am happy to widely recommend this book to interested readers. Python is relatively an easy programming language to learn, allowing you to start coding pretty quickly. However, there’s a ...
Read more →No mames, ¿sabías que la IA puede ser tu mejor chalán o tu peor pesadilla? Si le estás pegando duro al código asistido por IA, seguro te ha pasado que la IA se pone necia o "alucina" bien gacho. Le pides un script y te lo da para Ubuntu (¡wákala …
Read more →Let's be honest: most AI coding setups are a mess. One day you are using a cheap model that can't even close a bracket, and the next you're using a premium orchestrator that burns $10 in tokens just to fix a "hello world" typo. It's frustrating as hell, right? I …
Read more →This post is a review for Computing Reviews for Artificial Intelligence • Play or break the deck , a book published in Traficantes de Sueños As a little disclaimer, I usually review books or articles written in English, and although I will offer this review to Computing Reviews as usual, it is likely it will not be published. The title of this book in Spanish is Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja . I was pointed at this book, published last October by Margarita Padilla García, a w...
Read more →This post is a review for Computing Reviews for Unique security and privacy threats of large language models — a comprehensive survey , a article published in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 58, No. 4 Much has been written about large language models (LLMs) being a risk to user security and privacy, including the issue that, being trained with datasets whose provenance and licensing are not always clear, they can be tricked into producing bits of data that should not be divulgated. I took on reading...
Read more →Tengo rato pensando: "¿Qué más habrá en cuanto a SSH y sus certificados, llaves y demás cosas?". El openssh tiene más que ofrecer, seguramente, que lo que usamos al día a día. Basta con echarte un clavado en los man pages del mismo y ver que así es. La neta …
Read more →Your company just finished Series B. You have cash to spend. You have a great product with a Go stack that compiles to a single static binary. Your engineering team spends 25% of their time securing that stack. You invest millions in infrastructure defense: Stateful firewalls, AI-augmented scanning, Red Teams …
Read more →Hoy me acordé de lo útiles que son los atajos de Readline. Estaba tecleando un comando larguísimo y me equivoqué al final. En lugar de borrar todo, usé Ctrl + A y Ctrl + E para saltar, y Ctrl + W para borrar palabras. ¡Chido! Readline es la librería que hace que Bash …
Read more →Hoy me acordé cuando un compa me pidió ayuda con su laptop llena de virus y lentitud. La neta, Windows es como una novia celosa: te controla todo y te deja sin libertad. Pero GNU/Linux es abierto, gratis y bien chingón . Vamos a migrar paso a paso para que …
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