beng-nl

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Ben Gras.

My day job is security researcher at Intel Corporation. I'm interested in EDA tools and RTL analysis, systems programming, embedded programming, and the many challenges that intersect with that world.

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email: [email protected]

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Comment · 2 days ago
How about, instead of removing it, this primary source piece of character witness story is added :-)
Comment · 10 days ago
I got cobol fingers reading that
Comment · 10 days ago
Small note, your strikethrough isn’t rendering, making it read like emphasis “that is not less rented” which probably isn’t what you intended :-)
Comment · 12 days ago
That’s also what’s keeping me from connecting my WhatsApp to an AI - even readonly which would already be very powerful and useful.

Every now and again I sketch out an automatic iPhone backup over wireless workflow so I can extract the WhatsApp conversations once a day - which may be a good usability/tos-safety trade-off - but that may or may not be worth it.

Comment · 13 days ago
[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.]
Comment · 16 days ago
I agree with you because I so thoroughly understand what mathematicians are saying. Expertise and knowledge developed over decades, previously unique and marketable, and status conferring, are threatened in their relevance because of ai.

I know this intimately because I identify, roughly, as a programmer first and security researcher second. Guess which two fields ai companies decided to specialize in first? Yes, the FML ones.

The intellectually rewarding part of my job/skills - the only reason I enjoyed them - are, not completely gone yet, but threatened. And shrinking. This is a very scary observation.

I know from ‘isomorphic situations’ lessons in history that fighting the tide is pointless. I have to decide intelligently how to respond. Easier said than done when your livelihood and identity are at stake.

For now I still have a job but I and everyone around me is worried. In a year, At best our jobs will be very different.

So yes I empathize with these mathematicians enormously.

Comment · 16 days ago
As siblings have said, Prediction is not only about the future. For examples, see ML frameworks (sklearn comes to mind) where the inference method after training a classifier is called ‘predict.’

In science, a ‘prediction’ has special status because it can lend credence to a hypothesis if its implications (predictions) are borne out.

If it’s about the future, the precise verb is ‘forecast.’

Comment · 17 days ago
We haven’t yet but we had then :-)
Comment · 21 days ago
Oh no.. careful what you wish for! A clippy maximizer!!
Comment · 22 days ago
Your post reads like it is refuting GP but I can’t unambiguously make out what you’re saying.

GP is saying the USA is increasing naked in its imperial attitude, crushing whoever is a threat to its imperialism. This is increasingly visible to its allies. In other words, those allies should start to act like the USA is the threat it is.

Are you refuting that?

Or are you implying that due to the past alliance with the USA, the allies should remain blind to the increasingly naked threat the USA is to its past allies and the rest of the world?

Can you please spell out your claim and supporting reasoning?

Comment · 1 month ago
I agree with you. I think it’s even bad for the soul to be impolite to a model.
Comment · 1 month ago
Than them*

;-)

Comment · 1 month ago
Because in context, the material obtained from that website is library genesis (libgen), a huge collection of (among other things) copyrighted books.
Comment · 1 month ago
Isn’t it a bit soon to call Tailscale a giant corporation?
Comment · 1 month ago
Total speedrun.

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