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Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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Crypto is older than you thought!
I would now agree with that. My compiler experience was on a team that happened to have a LALR expert, Jeanne Musinski PhD, a student of Jeffrey Ullman. She invented a better error recovery for the language. Recursive descent would have been perfectly suited to the task.
> LR being more expressive than LL has never mattered.
Quite agree. One might guess that a language that needs that might be hard to program in.
However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly.
This led to a new job and the understanding of many new useful programming concepts. Very rewarding.
But if you are curious, studying compilers, maybe even writing a new one, will give you tools to do other things.
While working with LLMs, much of my experience gives me new ideas to push the LLM to explore.
Additionally, I always am looking closely at the code and I think I am an incrementally better programmer.