malwrar

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by malwrar 5d ago
Any tips on measuring the impact of not having swap? I never use it on my machines for similar reasons.
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by malwrar 5d ago
I feel a similar fate will befall engineers too. Your predictions anre quite interesting from that perspective. Markets defined entirely by law have distorted our collective understanding of what can actually be built with the knowledge our
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by malwrar 13d ago
What about when the open models get to the point that you don’t need these fancy GPUs? It seems inevitable this will happen over time, we see cracks right now within even just GPT w/ expert streaming and flash attention. ASICs are comi
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by malwrar 13d ago
Is the fact that Nvidia is also massively financing the closed-models companies, which stand to lose when open model project(s) take off, a conflict of interest here? I can’t tell if this is nvidia hedging or planning to embrace & extin
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by malwrar 1mo ago
Don’t get me wrong, governments putting these things up for one purpose and then using them for another (my read on your use of “malicious”) is a major concern I have. It is broader than that though, and is the distinction I sought to captu
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by malwrar 1mo ago
Thanks for this term, I’ll try using it!
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by malwrar 1mo ago
Interesting perspective. As others have noted, I believe the brightline is less “general purpose computer…” and more “…that is remotely accessible & modifiable effectively anywhere in the world”. I worry not just about OEMs and cops, bu
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by malwrar 1mo ago
I don’t doubt it was intended by the manufacturer, but do you think the average customer knows this? Every normal person I’ve ever told this to, that their Ring cameras can also be looked through by the police, has looked at me like I’m cra
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by malwrar 1mo ago
It frustrates me when people call them license plate readers. I guess you need to call them something, but they are general-purpose internet connected cameras. They will do whatever their firmware tells them to do, and could be reprogrammed
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by malwrar 1mo ago
We are only ever one computer science paper or github repo away from all of their moat fading to dust anyways. The question everyone financial should be asking is “what happens when folks don’t _need_ to pay these people anymore?”
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by malwrar 2mo ago
The sizes for the matrices are decided up front (“hyperparameters”, more or less guesstimated) and the values that are learned (“parameters”, for completeness) and remain static after training. The layering just refers to the core “transfor
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by malwrar 2mo ago
Yes. Each token prediction is one big function call. Then you just recursively generate more tokens until run out of context or the model predicts a next token indicating end of sequence. Technically the model outputs a matrix where the las
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by malwrar 2mo ago
They log all DNS requests made to their public resolver in a searchable internal database, at least when I worked there a decade or so ago. I wonder if they seed their crawler with it?
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by malwrar 2mo ago
One of my personal faves on that site: fauux.neocities.org
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by malwrar 2mo ago
> We really need an open protocol to build on. I’d bet making a slack-compatible client or bridge isn’t hard, we all just instinctively know whoever develops it is going to get sued or taken down. It feels like we quietly gave up on adve
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by malwrar 3mo ago
Perhaps “censorship” & manufacturing consent? I think both political extremes have their own angles: liberals might be concerned that conservative censors will censor kids from learning about LGBT people and minorities, conservatives wi
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by malwrar 3mo ago
My proposal is that we increase the effectiveness of child controls on devices, so kids can’t get access to the adult world on them. Parents in other threads however tell me that this won’t work, they’ll just use the internet on their frien
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by malwrar 3mo ago
I heard a billionaire is funding this, he’s probably afraid of the one famous instance of someone like him getting killed by one of those.
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by malwrar 3mo ago
My point is that the entire check is bypassed easily and instantly, and in the meantime the government gets data that someone _will_ figure out how to make personally identifying for adults, or will argue for changes to make it so. Alcoho
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by malwrar 3mo ago
Headline news: children infiltrate the universal adult one time password scheme for porn, parents panic! Turns out the 18 year olds started selling access to their younger friends, who resold it to their younger friends.
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by malwrar 3mo ago
These things passing the Turing Test makes anthropomorphizing their behavior awkward , but don’t forget it’s just an analogy to communicate an experience. If you convey a certain written voice to these models in your input, you get a somew
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by malwrar 3mo ago
It was precisely that for me! Another commenter captures it well; “the bitter lesson” indeed.
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by malwrar 3mo ago
I’d recommend my method of just drawing out the block diagram and drawing out + digging into the math at each step! I’m the kind of person who needs to take time to ask lots of questions before stuff clicks, and if you are too I strongly re
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by malwrar 3mo ago
Im also a mere mortal, and after putting a few years into it IMO I’d say people make it much more complicated than it actually is. I failed most of my math courses for lack of interest, but found passion later with the aforementioned SLAM s
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by malwrar 3mo ago
Back when ChatGPT came out, I was so shocked by how _good_ it was for an “AI” product that I simply had to know how it worked. Over the next month I ended up drawing out a block diagram on a whiteboard I have in my office, with the math inv
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by malwrar 4mo ago
How do you verify someone’s age reliably without identifying them? Unless there’s some standard around zero-knowledge proofs they’re implementing that I’m not aware of, they’re probably going to end up identifying everyone as part of this
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by malwrar 4mo ago
I don’t understand how video evidence from a mass surveillance network would have helped here. They found your car without it! Shouldn’t your issue be with the prosecutor, and thus your ineffective local government? Otherwise, what’s to sto
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by malwrar 4mo ago
Indeed sad, congrats on publishing your book though. I’ve certainly felt a bit of that same angst myself. I think SWGEmu (cool project, just learned of it from you!) do represent some optimism though. Maybe these sorts of passion projects w
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by malwrar 4mo ago
Really hate to say it, but I’ve stopped publishing my work too for this reason. I spend most of my time now building my own little software ark, and I aspire to no longer think of programming in the next few years. I feel like the creative
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by malwrar 4mo ago
I don’t think people realize that these devices can even be used that way. I talk with people outside of the tech scene frequently, and they are routinely surprised when I tell them about this sort of capability. The ring doorbell Super Bow

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