Tim's Computer Science Blog

So this is kinda fun. I started using AI ( yes, the shame as an artist ) to write a book that tells an actual story while teaching the CompTIA objectives for several exams under the hood. I can guarantee there is nothing out there like it since it bridges a gap between technical know-how and good storytelling. I doubt there are very many people who can cross both domains and LLM's make it easier to do so.  That being said, the technical details and decisions sometimes need a few changes. Left to themselves, the LLM's will occasionally mix up causes with effects, and who said what in the past. After spending a few hours trying to prompt it into fixing a few stubborn problems, I just decided that I'd need to do some hand editing. It's faster... So far, I've found that Opus 5+ is generally better at catching technical errors, while Gemini Argon is better at catching plot and continuity problems . The story is planned to cover CompTIA: Server+, Security+, Linux+, Proje...

It sounds like an oxymoron: using data-scraping LLMs to build Windows privacy tools. But here we are, playing around with what all the "cool kids" are using. Recently, I've been testing various Large Language Models (LLMs) to see what they are capable of, and I'm suitably impressed. These systems qualify as artificial intelligence in a way prior technology simply couldn't. That being said, I don't think it's the same as human intelligence. While very impressive, I consider our current systems to be advanced representations of accumulated knowledge. When trained and harnessed properly, they allow us to statistically extract that knowledge and apply it. They have been fed representations of human actions, giving them the ability to simulate behavior when prompted. That is what makes this really interesting (and scary for the doomsayers.) Updating the Anti-Spy Script I've been working on two projects with AI quite extensively: a system integrity mon...