A software skill people not often appreciated outside security: probing the emergent semantics of a complex system. First understood this at Stripe while integrating various financial backends. Turns out to be extremely useful for building systems for training neural networks.

May 2, 2022 · 6:56 PM UTC

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There's so much to learn, and so much more coming at us; I feel like the sum of human knowledge is now a rolling-window summation rather than a sum total.
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It’s really fun to find people in the AI community re-discovering the basic principles of software and systems engineering, as if it were something brand new. BFW Greg, this is not a phenomenon unique to security, either.
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Dark APIs ;)
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Can you describe, maybe by example, what emergent semantics are, and what they look like in real life?
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