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Cyber Measures Up in Manchester
Peter Drucker said “What gets measured, gets managed”. When I turned up at Old Trafford, home of Manchester’s red team (it’s a security conference, geddit) for The Future of Cyber, I certainly was measurably impressed by the setting even though I’m usually found more on the blue spectrum of infosec.
But let’s get into the talks!
Measure, measure, measure First, Greg Notch talked about the importance of using metrics in communication.
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Resisting compliance is futile
About two months ago I stumbled across a great YouTube video of a talk by Charity Majors called Compliance standards should be modern development practices. Now let’s step back for a minute. Am I seriously suggesting that anything with the word “compliance” is going to be a riveting watch? Why, yes I am. And with good reason. I’m a fan of good security and I like agile. And I think one of the major stumbling blocks about putting Sec into DevOps is to forget the agile origins of DevOps culture.
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Victorification: Wiring the Winning Organisation Book Review
Last year was exciting, it was my first time going to a DevOps Enterprise Summit and meeting Gene Kim was very cool. The conference didn’t actually start on Tuesday, there was a little session on Monday as people were trickling in from all over the world. And in said session, Gene presented his latest project. He was writing a book with Steven Spears called Wiring the Winning Organisation.
If I’m honest, I am not a fan of the title.
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AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 4
After the glimmer of hope on day 3 I was quite optimistic for the day 4 puzzle. I kept going with the phind-codellama model. I continued with keeping the model on a fairly tight leash and just being very specific as to what I wanted it to do.
What’s the puzzle? So, for the first part, we had to parse a text file and then match up numbers and winning numbers.
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AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 3
My experimentation with LLMs on day 1 and day 2 of Advent of Code was a bit frustrating. For the day 3 puzzle, I decided to change model. Previously I had been using the codellama:13b model but wasn’t really happy. I kept arguing with it and it just frustrated me. So let’s try some others.
codellama:34b So I thought maybe the model just wasn’t big enough, so off we went
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AI-dvent of Code 2023: Day 2
After day 1 of Advent of Code was only partially successful, I thought I would change my approach. Yesterday I tried to get the LLM to develop the whole solution in one go. But that was more like argumentative programming rather than conversational programming, so for the day 2 puzzle I start with small problems and hope to put it all together at the end.
Let’s get started The problem looked quite straightforward, parse something like the following
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