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Not an expert but #7 is -almost- elementary.

gone35on Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

What went wrong with Intel?

Not noise but an actual byte-by-byte encoding/serialization of the GPT-2 small model weights.

Try subscribing to any of them but from a new address, without signing up for Substack.

Then, to replicate the evidence for the shadow profile, try unsubscribe from any of them from a signed-out session. The unsubscribe page may show a shadow profile with the new address then.

gone35on Schola Latina Europæa and Universalis

Very good yes. Such is my experience, not only with Latin. Received language instruction may have it exactly backwards.

gone35on A path to O1 open source

I disagree. I found the review useful.

gone35on Walter Isaacson: My So-Called Writing Life (2014)

"How will writers (or anyone else who creates anything that can be digitized, from movies to music to apps to journalism) make a living in an era in which digital content can be freely replicated?"

gone35on Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Tour de force, truly. Amazing work!

gone35on Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

This is a fundamental observation:

"Prompt injection occurs because an LLM cannot distinguish between the “system prompt” created by a developer and the rest of the context that is appended to the query."

gone35on Neural general circulation models for weather and climate

Important caveat — from the abstract: "For both weather and climate, our approach offers orders of magnitude computational savings over conventional GCMs, although our model does not extrapolate to substantially different future climates."

gone35on Ingenuity had more computing power than all NASA deep space missions combined

Key quote:

"The miracle of Ingenuity is that all of these commercially bought, off-the-shelf components worked. Radiation didn't fry the Qualcomm computer. The brutal thermal cycles didn't destroy the battery's storage capacity. Likewise, the avionics, sensors, and cameras all survived despite not being procured with spaceflight-rated mandates."

gone35on Cascade: CPU fuzzing via intricate program generation

Unrelated but see also 'stress' by Amos Waterland, an excellent workload generator to impose CPU, memory, I/O or disk stress on POSIX systems and report any errors that come up [1,2]. The tool unfortunately hasn't been maintained for some time, but it's being resurrected [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190307133628/http://people.sea...

[2] https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/stress

gone35on Dozens of Malicious NPM Packages Steal User, System Data

More information here: https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/malicious-pack...

gone35on AI booster Paul Graham complains of rise in web content that's 'AI SEO bait'

Yes. Below is the first live example of possible AI SEO bait I have seen, sent to me unbeknownst by an investor friend (visit at your own risk):

https://biz.crast.net/nvidia-backed-corewave-seeks-stake-sal...

The paraphrase may be done by hand but my (naïf) sense it is not. You judge. The copy goes:

(Bloomberg) — Corewave, a cloud computing provider that is becoming one of the hottest startups in the artificial intelligence race, is exploring a minority stake sale that could value the company at $8, according to people with knowledge of the matter. billion or more. Case.

most read from bloomberg

A Corwave representative declined to comment.

Nvidia Corp. for CoreWeave data centers was an early adopter of graphics chips, getting ahead of the wave rolling through the technology. [...]

[...]

– With assistance from Ian King.

Most read from Bloomberg Businessweek

Source: finance.yahoo.com

gone35on Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)

Excellent quote:

"When I came to Washington before World War II to head the electrical section of the Bureau of Ships, I found that one man was in charge of design, another of production, a third handled maintenance, while a fourth dealt with fiscal matters. The entire bureau operated that way. It didn’t make sense to me. Design problems showed up in production, production errors showed up in maintenance, and financial matters reached into all areas. I changed the system. I made one man responsible for his entire area of equipment—for design, production, maintenance, and contracting. If anything went wrong, I knew exactly at whom to point. I run my present organization on the same principle."

gone35on K Foundation Burn a Million Quid

Credit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35565363

gone35on Planned Upcoming Downtime: Coinbase.com Maintenance

Probably among the worst planned "technical upgrades" ever (emphasis added):

"Coinbase will be conducting a scheduled technical systems upgrade starting Saturday, March 4 2023 on or around 8am PT. We expect this process to take up to 8 hours to complete, however this estimated time is subject to change.

During this scheduled downtime, trading, transfers, and access to funds on Coinbase.com (Simple and Advanced Trade) and our mobile app [will be unavailable? [sic]]. In addition, any recurring buys will be delayed until the system upgrade is complete. However, you will still be able to access your account during this downtime. Upon completion of the initial technical systems upgrade, we will progressively re-enable trading."

gone35on The Astonishing Convergence of AI and the Human Brain (2020)

Credit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473481

gone35on GPT-4 will never be built

Quoting fully the tweet:

"GPT-4 will never be built.

Absent a fundamental breakthrough, a human-level 17T parameter model would take about 149 years and $350B of compute to train."

gone35on God Damn It, Google (2013)

"The Google of the early 2000s, globe-spanning and yet delighting in esoterica, was on its way to becoming a historic framework, Standard Oil crossed with Bell Labs. Not only that, it was crazy, starry-eyed: It was an asylum by and for the lunatics, a padded room big enough to hold the world."

gone35on The first time a language model has 'testified' in the US Senate

(Apologies for the likely rules-breaking title; but I don't know of any clear guidance on how to title tweets on HN.)

gone35on Authomize Discovers PassBleed Password Stealing and Impersonation Risks in Okta

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967628

gone35on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize

Yes. Posted here (and with some important qualifications): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32948345

gone35on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize

Not Nature but Molecular Systems Biology [2], apologies, in the context of reverse docking for antibiotics discovery:

"We confirm extensive promiscuity, but find that the average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (auROC) is 0.48, indicating weak model performance."

Derek Lowe had a post about this earlier this month [1] (which includes important qualifications I failed to omit).

[1] "Benchmarking AlphaFold-enabled molecular docking predictions for antibiotic discovery", Molecular Systems Biology 2022 18:e11081 https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.202211081

[2] "Not AlphaFold's Fault", September 7 2022, https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-alphafold-s-fa...

gone35on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize

Not with recent results in Nature I believe reporting glaring mispredictions. Lots of promotion notwithstanding, AlphaFold may not be usable yet.

gone35on Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)

Disagree, but opinions differ on Zalamea.

gone35on Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)

Badiou is a user, not a philosopher of mathematics (he himself would agree). Being and Event —neither volume of the now trilogy— is certainly not about mathematics, nor philosophy of mathematics. Rather, self-avowedly, it is a work in the service of radical politics.

gone35on Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)

For a guide with some wonderfully lucid essays, see the masterful

Timothy Gowers (et al., eds) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (Princeton UP, 2008).

Utterly disagree. It borders scholarly malpractice.

gone35on The Way of Python (1999)

After, naturally, PEP 20 [1].

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

gone35on Szeged in 1934 (1993) [pdf]

After: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16412068