sebszyller.com | Blog https://sebszyller.com/blog Opinionated takes on machine learning, security & privacy, and policy. en-gb Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:10:00 GMT Best Practices for a New Research Project Repo in 2026 https://sebszyller.com/blog/2026/researchrepoin2026 Research code is notoriously sloppy but it doesn't have to be. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2026/researchrepoin2026 Looking Back at Learning Rust with LLMs: Works 100% of the Time... 50% of the Time https://sebszyller.com/blog/2026/rustllmretrospective In 2024, I had a mixed experience of learning Rust with LLMs. Suffice to say, things have changed a lot since then. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2026/rustllmretrospective Fairness Is Hardly About DEI https://sebszyller.com/blog/2025/fairnessvsdei Research gets politicised all the time. For better, or worse. But fairness in machine learning? Seriously? Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2025/fairnessvsdei DeepSeek Drama -- Model Watermarking to the Rescue https://sebszyller.com/blog/2025/deepseekdrama DeepSeek is accused of training on ChatGPT outputs. OpenAI has some proof. Do you trust it? Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2025/deepseekdrama Open Weights Have Nothing to Do with Open Source https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/opensourcellms We love open source because we can read and modify the code. We love open weights because we can run models locally. They're the same thing.. wait, what?! Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/opensourcellms Learning Rust with Large Language Models (Part III): Finding a Needle in a Haystack https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsneedleinhaystack Low mean and high standard deviation is the name of the game when it comes to complex topics and LLMs. Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsneedleinhaystack Learning Rust with Large Language Models (Part II): an Outdated Manual Written by a Newbie https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsoutdatedmanual Imagine a teacher who has read only the introductory chapters but of all textbooks in existence. Enter learning Rust with LLMs. Sun, 03 Mar 2024 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsoutdatedmanual Food Markets Are a Bad Analogy for Data Marketplaces https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/marketanalogy It's common to refer to data marketplaces using the food market analogy -- it's easy to understand and unfortunately, provides us with a bad mental model. Sun, 21 Jan 2024 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/marketanalogy Learning Rust with Large Language Models (Part I): a Project for 2024 https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsstart Bespoke tutoring is one of the promises of large language models. Let's see if they can help me learn Rust. Tue, 02 Jan 2024 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2024/rustwithllmsstart No One Cares About Large Language Models Anymore https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/llmsnoonecares Large language models are just better search. It's all hype. Everyone works on multimodal and video models now. Right? RIGHT?! Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/llmsnoonecares Content Provenance Needs Critical Mass https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/provenancecriticalmass Leica adds provenance support to its latest camera, while OpenAI claims they can't reliably detect synthetic text. Is content provenance just a pipe dream? Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/provenancecriticalmass Data Marketplaces for Individuals (Still) Don't Make Sense https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/datamarketplacesrevisited Controlling your own data is nice. Decide what you want to share, and charge for it; or don't share anything at all. But other than data that compromises your privacy, do you have anything worth selling? Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/datamarketplacesrevisited The Security Through Obscurity Moment of Large Language Models... and Money https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/llmsecurityobscurity OpenAI is on track to learn all the good security practices the hard way. Probably make a tone of money in the process too. Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2023/llmsecurityobscurity Finding the Beauty in the Imperfections of Generative Art https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/aiartstyle Generative art has taken over the internet by storm. It fails in more than one way but do we really care? Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/aiartstyle Can You Spot a Deepfake? https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/deepfakes This looks Photoshopped. This CGI is bad. We either heard or said these more than once. There's a new cool kid on the block now. Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/deepfakes Kosher Data for Your Ethical Needs https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/kosherdata I like my data like I like my coffee -- sourced without exploitation. Sat, 21 May 2022 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/kosherdata Why Synthetic Data Is Not Private https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/syntheticdata And what's more, it's snake oil... unless done right. Wed, 04 May 2022 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/syntheticdata Data Marketplaces for Individuals Don't Make Sense https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/datamarketplaces Or at least are challenging. Who doesn't want to go against big tech. and have agency over selling their own data, right? Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2022/datamarketplaces On the Difficulty of Cross-disciplinary Communication https://sebszyller.com/blog/2021/crossdisciplinarycommunication I'm sorry but I don't speak corporate law. Could you explain it to me in Greek instead? Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2021/crossdisciplinarycommunication Whose Model Is It Anyway? https://sebszyller.com/blog/2021/whosemodelisitanyway You gathered the data, sanitised it and trained your fancy model. Your clients love it. Can you prove that it's yours? Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:10:00 GMT https://sebszyller.com/blog/2021/whosemodelisitanyway