pet_the_bird

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by pet_the_bird 12d ago
I am not sure I see a fundamental distinction between HN censoring your speech on their platform or the government preventing you from speaking in public. Both are censoring you right? Is the difference the fact that HN is free to regulate
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by pet_the_bird 12d ago
I am personally concerned by what defensive can mean. Alignment of these models is inherently a non-neutral proces, and currently what values are reinforced is decided by a few OpenAI engineers. I feel that any 'defensive model' w
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by pet_the_bird 3mo ago
The Dutch University of Delft systematically 'maximized' grants and shuffled the money between projects, according to investigative journalists of the NRC[1]. 1 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/02/15&#
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by pet_the_bird 3mo ago
Highy anecdotal: I have tried various self-hosted models using both vllm and llama.cpp. I am in a situation where I have access to large amount of memory (~320 GB). While experimenting with quantization I found that there is a non-trivial t
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Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare [video](youtube.com)
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by pet_the_bird 5mo ago
"Cryptography Made Simple" By Nigel Smart and "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup are excellent resources for people that have affinity with Math and CS. The second resource can be a
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by pet_the_bird 5mo ago
I think the article tried to refer to this link https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10663 As I understand from scanning the paper, the authors attempt to determine differences between the Russian wikipedia articles and the arti