regexes are very important

Regexes are easy 🤔

The dreaded Regexes 🥴

When you ask AI to fix the regexes

I've built a free, open-source regex toolkit. It provides tools to build, optimize, analyze, and test regexes without any skill required.

I got antislop working with any openai-compatible completions endpoint that supports top_logprobs. Here it's generating an unslopped dataset via vllm. It's banning a list of strings that I've given it, plus some regexes for "it's not x, it's y" type phrases.

Problem. McMahon’s working on a PDP-11; only 64KB of memory. The full corpus exceeded 200KB. Regexes were the clear way to calculate the sets, but ed loaded the whole file at once. McMahon called in a favor from a friend, none other than Ken Thompson himself.

TIL that you can use regexes in VSCode global search. To enable it, you just hit on the ".*" button in the global search. I found this out as I wanted to look up numbers > 1000, so I use thousand separators for better display for my blog.

Thanks to @gregorharlan PHPStan will support "rawMessage" in "ignoreErrors". You will no longer have to come up with regexes to ignore messages ad verbatum! And baselines will look much cleaner too.

Very good talk on LLM mechanistic interpretability(NeurIPS 24) by Neel Nanda Interesting downstream task was to make code generation models (Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct and Gemma-2-2B-IT) to stop using regexes. I didn't understand why this was useful however, this was a requirement

DeepSeek-R1-Zero should have been named "Regexes as Rewards"

Explanation : of the XSS polyglot regexes with double quote, HTML encoded, still work.⚔️ #infosec #cybersec #bugbountytips

One of The fastest Android APK static analysis tools, powered by Go's concurrency for lightning-fast scans! 1,500+ regexes and supports custom regex files Detecting API keys, OAuth tokens, Firebase URLs, and more. Say hi to my apkX https://t.co/HfoiuZJ0yW

trufflehog by @trufflesec Discover hidden secrets in your Git repos with TruffleHog! This tool scans commit history & branches for accidentally committed secrets, using regex & entropy checks. Customize with custom regexes & allow lists. #TruffleHog #GitSecurity #DevOps

YALS now has support for JSON schemas, lark grammars, and regexes for constrained inference via llguidance. Thanks to the team at guidance-ai for making an amazing library with llama.cpp integration!

Profiling diff view page, 91% of page load is in syntax highlighting with regexes #golang

> Parser Combinators Beat Regexes https://t.co/JAszcFn7d7

This is pretty smart We need ways to find prompt injection, and regexes or yara rules aren't going to be able to do everything, so we'll need things like this nova tool

voices are telling me that stack exchange mods are checking whether answers are ai-generated by running them through thousands of regex patterns. the funniest part is that the mod who wrote those regexes actually used gpt-3.5 to generate them. you can't make this shit up