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I gave a keynote talk last week at NDSS. I spent the front half talking about memory safety and how we can, once and for all, eliminate things like buffer overflows. In the back half, I talked about how DARPA works, saying all the things that I wish I'd known about DARPA when I was starting my own academic career. I also wore my favorite vintage aloha shirt.
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I've recently been playing around with vibe coding some basic tree-like data structures (treaps, red-black trees, AVL trees, and hash-array mapped tries) in Rust, and then twisting the arm of the LLM to do an optimization from Sarnak and Tarjan (1986) that lets you keep a version history without paying O(log n) path copying costs. This is the sort of thing that, in the old days, might have made fo
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Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman organized a cool thing: he bought several tons of a specific single origin bean and then divided it four ways. Three went to different decaffeination plants, one normal as a control. Then they divided all that across fifty different roasters. I bought a set from a Houston local roaster (New Heights Coffee Roasting). They included their o
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Eric Rescorla has taken a 40-page swing at "what policy makers need to know about AI safety and security". Really interesting. https://educatedguesswork.org/assets/ai-security-policy.pdf
Update:
Talk video is now online: https://youtu.be/3bAAVNKhsfY
Webpage: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/keynote-by-prof-dan-wallach/
I've recently been playing around with vibe coding some basic tree-like data structures (treaps, red-black trees, AVL trees, and hash-array mapped tries) in Rust, and then twisting the arm of the LLM to do an optimization from Sarnak and T…
I gave a keynote talk last week at NDSS. I spent the front half talking about memory safety and how we can, once and for all, eliminate things like buffer overflows. In the back half, I talked about how DARPA works, saying all the things t…
A useful explainer about why static type systems, in general, and Rust, in particular, are super useful for debugging code.
https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
This is great: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptographic-code-at-the-compiler-level/
LLVM 22 (and presumably all the subsequent versions) now have a constant time select intrinsic …
Here's a thoughtful essay about what AI is doing to college education. In short, it's taking away from students the process of struggling to learn. That process, where you figure it out and skill up, just doesn't happen to AI-dependent stu…
I feel anxious for stepping away from teaching just as AI assistants have swept through the education system. This piece, linked below, is a thoughtful look at what we're giving up, for junior developers who rely on AI rather than having t…
Here's an amazing dance video, only a minute and a half. It's a Japanese dance troupe, Beat Surf Tendo. The choreography is by the woman in the middle in the yellow pants, Moga Almeri. It's hip hop-ish dancing to James Brown (Funky Good Ti…
I looked at the news this morning, and there was a story about Panama. Every time this happens, David Lee Roth immediately shouts "way-ooooooh" and I've promptly got Van Halen in my head, rent free. Again.
Happy new year!
https://tenor.com…
Coffee nerding: decaf edition.
Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman organized a cool thing: he bought several tons of a specific single origin bean and then divided it four ways. Three went to different decaffeination plants, one normal as a cont…
I've recently been playing around with vibe coding some basic tree-like data structures (treaps, red-black trees, AVL trees, and hash-array mapped tries) in Rust, and then twisting the arm of the LLM to do an optimization from Sarnak and T…
I gave a keynote talk last week at NDSS. I spent the front half talking about memory safety and how we can, once and for all, eliminate things like buffer overflows. In the back half, I talked about how DARPA works, saying all the things t…
A useful explainer about why static type systems, in general, and Rust, in particular, are super useful for debugging code.
https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
This is great: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptographic-code-at-the-compiler-level/
LLVM 22 (and presumably all the subsequent versions) now have a constant time select intrinsic …
Here's a thoughtful essay about what AI is doing to college education. In short, it's taking away from students the process of struggling to learn. That process, where you figure it out and skill up, just doesn't happen to AI-dependent stu…
I feel anxious for stepping away from teaching just as AI assistants have swept through the education system. This piece, linked below, is a thoughtful look at what we're giving up, for junior developers who rely on AI rather than having t…
Here's an amazing dance video, only a minute and a half. It's a Japanese dance troupe, Beat Surf Tendo. The choreography is by the woman in the middle in the yellow pants, Moga Almeri. It's hip hop-ish dancing to James Brown (Funky Good Ti…
I looked at the news this morning, and there was a story about Panama. Every time this happens, David Lee Roth immediately shouts "way-ooooooh" and I've promptly got Van Halen in my head, rent free. Again.
Happy new year!
https://tenor.com…
Coffee nerding: decaf edition.
Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman organized a cool thing: he bought several tons of a specific single origin bean and then divided it four ways. Three went to different decaffeination plants, one normal as a cont…
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