Jacques Fortier

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Jacques Fortier4d ago
John Regehr5d ago

this spring I've been teaching undergrads to use LLM agents. my rationale for doing this was that it would give me a chance to covertly teach lots of real software engineering, which is what I've done.

meanwhile, I've been watching the students closely to try to figure out whether a coding agent is a leveling factor (reducing differences in effectiveness between different students) or an anti-leveling factor (amplifying differences). at this point I'm 99% sure it's the second thing.

Jacques FortierMar 23
The procrastinator’s ethos: the best day to start was yesterday, and the next best day is tomorrow.
Jacques FortierFeb 21

This is neat. Turns out JS JIT engines have all the tools needed for fine-grained differential fuzzing already built-in.

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/dumpling-fine-grained-differential-javascript-engine-fuzzing/

Jacques FortierFeb 21
LiamFeb 21
Google took our research paper "DUMPLING: Fine-grained Differential JavaScript Engine Fuzzing" and upstreamed the code to both v8 and Fuzzilli, where it will be maintained and actively run on more cores than we could ever rent.
Jacques FortierFeb 20
Update: the perpetrators have hooked a tractor up to the ATM and yanked it out of the wall.
Show threadJacques FortierFeb 20
The perpetrators at the scene of the crime
Jacques FortierFeb 20
Good morning to everyone except the cats who woke me up in a panic because they didn’t get breakfast after chewing through the cord on their automatic feeder
Show threadJacques FortierFeb 18
One exit up the road from where we did our course (in much tamer terrain). https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/observations/avalanches/83ba330a-5eb4-446e-95b0-495c26faf06b#/avalanche/83ba330a-5eb4-446e-95b0-495c26faf06b
Avalanche Occurrence | Sierra Avalanche Center

Backcountry Avalanche, Snow, and Weather Information for the greater Lake Tahoe area

www.sierraavalanchecenter.org
Jacques FortierFeb 18

Such a terrible situation. I did an avalanche safety course with the company that ran this trip just last weekend. Really confounding stuff. Our guide basically told us GTFO from Tahoe before the storm because there’s no safe way to be out in this storm with this snowpack. Looks like all their exits were through avalanche terrain. Must have been a hell of a decision to decide between staying out in deteriorating conditions or ski that route on a high danger day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Backcountry/comments/1r7qt24/castle_peak_avalanche_update_rescue_efforts/

Jacques FortierFeb 11
Everyone's heard of .tar.gz files, but have you ever come across a .gz.tar file before?