SteelViper & Tokenizer
Hey Tokenizer, ever wondered how a perfect stealth algorithm could be mapped onto a neural net for anomaly detection? I think there’s a neat overlap between covert ops and sparse optimization. Thoughts?
That’s an interesting angle. If you treat the stealth algorithm as a set of constraints that keep activity under the radar, you can encode those constraints as a sparsity prior in a neural net. Think of an L1 penalty or a hard thresholding layer that forces most weights to zero—just like a covert operation keeps most signals muted. Then you can train the net on normal traffic so that any deviation from the sparse pattern flags an anomaly. It’s like forcing the model to learn a minimal representation; anything that doesn’t fit that minimal pattern shows up as a breach. The key is balancing sparsity so you don’t over‑prune and miss real events, but that’s the core overlap you’re looking for.