Musings

2024

Recreating Gandalf by Lakera

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I discovered Lakera’s Gandalf game, an educational AI challenge on prompt injections and hallucinations, and tried to recreate its levels using GPT-4o to understand how defenses work and where vulnerabilities appear.
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Generative AI security

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This post explores generative AI, how large language models process prompts, and the threat of prompt injection attacks. Illustrating vulnerabilities and defensive considerations.
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2023

Power of abstraction

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This essay discusses the role of abstraction in programming and mathematics, showing how focusing on high-level structures can manage complexity, enhance readability, and inform performance-oriented design.
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Architecting new projects

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This post shares insights on initiating new software projects, emphasizing the iterative nature of requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, and balancing technical ambition with maintainable progress.
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IEEE QCE impression

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Some thoughts I was left with after this years IEEE quantum week, with extra focus on the numerical simulation and software architecture workshops. Conferences like these are truly important to the community. What I particularly liked about the IEEE Quantum Week talks where how they for the most part were truly responsible and providing a nuanced view without the overhyping that one often sees for example at the more business oriented conferences. The program catered to many different interests and this resulted in some very interesting lunch-time conversations. Among attendees there were those who work in quantum software and hardware, but also the rest of the software stack, algorithms, applications and so on. There were plenty of attendees both from industry and academia and it’s always interesting to discuss and see how views differ.
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ISC-HPC impression

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ISC-HPC, “The Event for High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Data Analytics & Quantum Computing” is a yearly conference focused on HPC but also more and more on the adjacent topics above. The amount of quantum focus in this years ISC was astonishing. A non-exhaustive list of events were the full-day QML tutorial on Sunday, full day workshop on Thursday, several posters, sessions on the EuroHPC efforts, the HPCQS and similar projects, the ETP4HPC quantum project, and a session on industry usecases. The level was all-throughout very high.
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