# manning (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover manning. Page: Feed: --- ## [Inference Enginering - Prefill vs decode](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/inference-enginering-prefill-vs-decode/) _2026-08-11 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ Questo è il mio primo blogpost in italiano. Questo è il primo appunto del learning path Inference engineering di Deep-ML. L'obiettivo è spiegare la differenza tra il prefill e il decode e perché vengono rispettivamente considerati compute-bandwith-bound e memory-bound. 1. Le due fasi dell'inferenza Nel contesto dell'inferenza di un LLM, prefill e decode sono i due step che ne caratterizzano il… ## [gpu-sentinel: reproducing a GPU-cloud container escape with no GPU](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/gpu-sentinel-reproducing-a-gpu-cloud-container-escape-with-no-gpu/) _2026-07-14 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ The other day a question stuck in my head: what does security actually look like in the context of GPUs? My workflow for questions like this has changed. A few years ago I'd have spent an evening watching a YouTube video and reading blog posts; today I can ask a language model and get a genuinely good answer back. So I asked. And the answer really struck, in one sentence: the overwhelming majority… ## [The Transformers: The Movie is a Retelling of the Grail Quest and I’m Tired of Pretending It’s Not](https://boydellandbrewer.com/blog/medieval-history-and-literature/the-transformers-the-movie-is-a-retelling-of-the-grail-quest-and-im-tired-of-pretending-its-not/) _2026-05-21 · Scott Manning · Scott Manning_ Guest blog post for Boydell & Brewer where they pitch it as "avid fan and medievalist Scott Manning argues how the cult classic, The Transformers: The Movie, is a retelling of the Grail quest and explores why that medieval echo helps explain the film's enduring legacy." ## [I Spent 10 Years Calculating How Bored the Knights Were on the Quest for the Holy Grail](https://scottmanning.com/content/10-years-sans-adventure/) _2026-04-09 · Scott Manning · Scott Manning_ One day, while reading The Quest for the Holy Grail, I came across a statement by Sir Gawain that made me chuckle: I have slain more than ten knights already, the worst of whom was more than adequate, and still have met with no adventure. In what world does someone trek through the wilderness, kill \[…\] ## [The Transformers: The Movie (1986) – An Annotated Bibliography](https://scottmanning.com/content/tftm-bibliography/) _2026-03-10 · Scott Manning · Scott Manning_ 7 June 2026 This bibliography is up to 70 entries and growing. If you have any suggested additions, please do not hesitate to reach out. In 2026, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) celebrates its 40th anniversary. Although it was originally a film made with the intention to market toys to children, it has had a \[…\] ## [The Culmination of Shakespearean Villainy in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)](https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/msq/article/view/2139/1845) _2026-01-16 · Scott Manning · Scott Manning_ This essay examines the Shakespearean-inspired rise and fall of Starscream, one of the many robots killed off in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie. Originally released with the intent to market toys to children, Hasbro saw death in the film as a practical approach to write off characters of discontinued toys. This essay examines \[…\] ## [10-day approach for Detection Engineering](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/10-day-approach-for-detection-engineering/) _2025-09-02 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ The detection engineering field feels like it could be my next professional challenge. My reading and exercises about threat hunting, combined with my work in ML, have been really interesting, but I wanted to experiment some more. So I decided to gather as much information as possible about detection engineering. But what is it? GitHub is usually a friend, I discovered a really great resource .… ## [No Logs, No Problem: Generating Threat Intel with Active Deception](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/no-logs-no-problem-generating-threat-intel-with-active-deception/) _2025-07-07 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ I’m continuing my series reviewing the book Cyber Threat Hunting by Nadhem AlFardan, published by Manning. So far, I’ve written four posts covering Chapter 3 , Chapter 4 , Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 . Chapter 9 in my opinion wasn’t worth an article, I couldn’t add more to what the author explained in that chapter. This one will be the last chapter review for this book. It was really fun and hope to… ## [Cyber Analyst Interview Questions](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/cyber-analyst-interview-questions/) _2025-06-03 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ This blog post is about an interesting YouTube video I watched recently. The core idea of the video was to ask the same interview questions to three different cybersecurity analysts . I've noted down those questions, and I'm going to try answering them myself. I thought it would be a cool challenge to try answering those questions myself. I'll share my initial answer in italics (to humble myself a… ## [K-means: We Gotta Stay 'Vicini Vicini' (Very Close!)](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/k-means-we-gotta-stay-vicini-vicini-very-close/) _2025-05-21 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ If you are Italian, you might be chuckling at the title. If you are not, I’m sorry but you have to know the Gabibbo. Me 🤝 Pop culture reference. I’m continuing my series reviewing the book Cyber Threat Hunting by Nadhem AlFardan, published by Manning. So far, I’ve written three posts covering Chapter 3 , Chapter 4 , and Chapter 6 . Although Chapter 7 was equally fascinating, I decided not to… ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QtFe2GBzYzcP) _2025-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Statistical Constructs or: How I Learned to Use the Standard Deviation](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/statistical-constructs-or-how-i-learned-to-use-the-standard-deviation/) _2025-05-15 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ I’m continuing the series of reviewing the book Cyber Threat Hunting , by Nadhem AlFardan, published by Manning. I already made two blog posts about Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 . This can be read standalone, but reading the other two for context could be useful. Bonus points if you recognize the title inspiration. 😃 You will find the specific files for the chapter in question at this link (my GitHub… ## [Monitoring LLMs Bad Behavior](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/monitoring-llms-bad-behavior/) _2025-04-24 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ Recently, Anthropic released a blog post called Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude: March 2025 , in which researchers discuss how some actors might use their Claude model in order to do harm. Multiple examples are presented, I will focus on two of them in particular: Social media bot spam; Script kiddie developing malware. The first case study is detailed here . First up: social… ## [Threat Intel 4 Threat Hunt](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/threat-intel-4-threat-hunt/) _2025-04-04 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ I’m continuing the series of reviewing the book Cyber Threat Hunting , by Nadhem AlFardan, published by Manning. If you haven’t read the one before, I strongly suggest you reading the previous post , as they are strongly correlated. You will fine the specific files for the chapter in question at this link (my GitHub repo). This is Chapter 4 called Threat Intelligence for Threat Hunting . Threat… ## [My First Threat Hunting Expedition](https://lucavauda.bearblog.dev/my-first-threat-hunting-expedition/) _2025-03-19 · lucavauda · Luca Vaudano's Blog_ One of the things I like doing is reading technical books about various topics. Reading technical books can be challenging because they are not always easy to understand. And what's more, a good technical book should always have exercises. Here’s my plan: I want to read and do the work of Cyber Threat Hunting , by Nadhem AlFardan, published by Manning. Doing the work is essential for learning. I… ## [Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages](https://scottmanning.com/content/cinema-medievalia-new-essays-on-the-reel-middle-ages/) _2025-01-29 · Scott Manning · Scott Manning_ Publisher DetailsTable of Contents Publisher Details Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning (Jefferson: McFarland, 2024) Pages: 386Bibliographic Info: 73 photos, notes, bibliography, index Purchase: McFarland | Amazon This collection of original essays presents new scholarship on nearly three dozen feature-length films, including silent films, animated films, films in black and white, and…