What to ask before you build or buy automatic redaction
Before you build or buy automatic redaction, answer six questions, starting with which rule it redacts to and whether the text is gone from the file.
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Jev and the no free lunch theorem
TypeSafe’s Jev returns an answer with a confidence score. On one task in an independent study it was at least 0.9 confident on 78% of items and wrong on 62% of them. Here are the numbers, including the ones in TypeSafe’s own cookbook.
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Your agent can't see most of a Word document
Microsoft Word keeps almost none of a document’s formatting next to the words, so an agent editing your document can’t see the styling it is breaking. Here is the routine I built to catch it, and how to install it.
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USF faculty discuss AI's role in education
Coverage of the “Teaching with AI: Embrace, Adapt or Resist?” panel at USF Tampa, where I argued that AI should not quietly absorb the work junior employees learn from.
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The weird way Claude speaks has a name. And here's how to fix it.
The AI models I use every day started writing in a way I could barely read. The pattern has a name: asyndetic parataxis. Here is how to identify it, and the prompt that stops it.
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Utilizing AI in school work
A live interview on FOX Tampa Bay Live. As students head back to school, I break down what AI should and should not be used for in school work.
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