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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 Prom…

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 …

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 hav…

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 c…

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 se…

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…

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 c…

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 yo…

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 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 a…

I just finished reading Rovelli's book "The Order of Time." The article is the last chapter, where the author summarizes the results of the "journey" of the book. I recommend the b…

Thanks! The design tradeoff between ridership and coverage is very interesting, and ripe for political discussion. I wonder if there are opportunities for working with on-demand ri…

That looks like an interesting problem! 1) What are the metrics that mass transit operators tend to optimize for? Do you think they are in line with improving the service to custom…

I would argue that abuse protection has been one of the main drivers toward centralized systems. Many goals of fully decentralized morality-neutral platforms are in conflict with t…

I have reviewed and published several papers for conferences in Computer Science. You got good suggestions so far, I'd like to add one important thing: * Choose and Know your commu…

It's safe to assume that most US universities with PhD programs have openings every year and they are going to sponsor you for a visa. The difficult part is identifying professors …

PhD students take classes, and some of them do have written exam (in CS theory more than other parts of CS). In the US, where the PhD is 5 years, you spent a good portion of the fi…

One thing that comes to mind is G+ pictures: it has the sharing functionalities you are planning to have, and it has a lot of more features in term of picture processing. How do yo…

I interviewed many candidates with PhDs for one of those major software firms, and I was not long ago one of those candidates myself. My advice is to spend some time and practice i…