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sdl··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Always worth watching again: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0057012/
sdl··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Yes, in that case it's often called Photo-TAN or QR-TAN. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...

Previously there were also so called "flicker TAN" approaches: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaktionsnummer#chipTAN_com...

sdl··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
German VR Banken: https://genostore.de/Banking/Kartenlesegeraete/

Sparkassen: https://www.sparkassen-shop.de/home/shop/tan-generatoren,375...

sdl··on Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
So basically the map projection problem [1] in higher dimensions?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

sdl··on A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
And in Reinforcement Learning:

POET (Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer): https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/poet-open-ended-deep-learnin...

SCoE (Scenario co-evolution): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321707.3321831

sdl··on Careless People
Evil and careless can be one and the same. They (FB) could not care-less about the consequences of their actions on other peoples' lives.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

sdl··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
In 2015, when I was asked by friends if I'm worried about Self driving Cars and AI, I answered: "I'll start worrying about AI when my Tesla starts listening to the radio because it's bored." ... that didn't take too long
sdl··on Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018)
I like the Bayesian Surprise definition for this. It's not about predicting the exact next state of the world (or the next frame of the noisy TV) but about how much the next state changes your model of the world.

https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2005/hash/0172d289d...

sdl··on I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
I spent some (too much) time trying to get pretty much the same thing running using GOW [1]. Was quite a bit harder than I thought, requiring a hdmi dummy plug to get the xserver config right etc.

1: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow

sdl··on Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?
See e.g. Ian Osband's work (he calls it 'risk' VS 'uncertainty' for some good examples that help in differentiating this: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
sdl··on Bayesian statistics and machine learning: How do they differ?
"Probabilistic Machine Learning" by Kevin Murphy is all you need. ... only half joking ;) https://probml.github.io/pml-book/
sdl··on Interpretable Machine Learning
I think the paper "Explaining Explanations in AI" by Brent Mittelstadt (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01439v1) gives a really good overview of the different goals and approaches.
sdl··on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
sdl··on Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys – Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption
So if I understood correctly, there are 5 requirements for such a system to be secure:

  1: secure/unmodifiable cryptographic processor
  2: with unremovable rate limiting
  3: and exclusive access to a hardware key
  
  4: cryptographic processor has the only function of encrypting user data based on
  5: hardware key and a user supplied pin/key
Errors done by Qualcomm:

  Violated 3: Hardware key not exclusivly readable by cryptographic processor
  Violated 5: Encryption based on derived key
Anything I overlooked?

(edited: formatting)

sdl··on Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed
So true. At first I couldn't believe it, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to completely remove a paired bluetooth device from windows. After having connected my wireless keyboard to my mac for a day, I tried to reconnect it to windows. It fails silently and doesn't show up any more in available bluetooth devices. The connection to my mac obviously changed the pairing code, while windows still tries the old one. I googled for hours, tried everything from uninstalling bluetooth drivers to removing entries from the registry. Windows always silently re-adds the keyboard to the installed devices and fails at pairing. So I've got 2 choices left: Buy a new keyboard or reinstall Windows. Yay!
sdl··on Without affordable housing, Vancouver risks becoming an economic ghost town
Chaos Computer Club - Europe's largest association of hackers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club)