The more confident the machine looks
Automation bias and the design of human-in-the-loop review software
The Ian Atha Museum of Internet Curiosities
Ian Atha is an ex-OpenAI technologist based in Athens. He knows how to run secure cloud infrastructure. He makes phygital art. And he helps others build things that matter.
Latest posts
The LLM Said 'You're Absolutely Right.' She Quit Treatment, Pressed Charges.
A documented case — Greek, skull base tumor, complaints filed with the European Public Prosecutor — and a close reading of the voice the chatbot used to get her there.
Major European Payment Processor Can't Send Email to Google Workspace Users
Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem.
Measuring Human Effort: Braincycles
Exploring the concept of quantifying human effort in creating digital content, proposing a new metric called 'braincycles' to assess the human attention and effort involved in digital interactions..
Introducing BabaBASIC: QBasic 4.5 on Android
BabaBASIC is an open-source Android app created to emulate QBasic 4.5, inspired by my father's nostalgia for BASIC and his desire to share the wonders of programming while at a café.
RAMSON, part 2
The 2nd post describing RAMSON, a JSON schema that preserves ECMAScript objects exactly as they are in memory.
RAMSON, part 1
The 1st post describing RAMSON, a JSON schema that preserves ECMAScript objects exactly as they are in memory.
Closure
A closure is a record of every reference a function utilizes.
Continuation
Cyber Killchain
Idempotent
A function is idempotent if running it once, or n times, has the same effect.
up: easily traverse directories in CLI
In the News: Grinnellians you should know: Ian Atha ’09
In the News: Winter 2012 issue of The Grinnell Magazine
Boost Your Java Unit Test Efficiency with LessIOSecurityManager: Control I/O for Faster and Safer Testing
LessIOSecurityManager is an open-source Java SecurityManager implementation designed to identify and control I/O operations during unit tests. By using fine-grained annotations, such as @AllowDNSResolution and @AllowNetworkAccess, software engineers can prevent costly and potentially harmful operations, ultimately improving test performance and reliability