cjbprime

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Chris Ball. Senior Principal Security Engineer on Zoom's Offensive Security team, posting personal opinions only.

Previously: keybase.io, gittorrent.org at Recurse Center, VP of Engineering at FlightCar (YC W13), Linux kernel SD card subsystem maintainer.

https://printf.net/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cjb; my proof: https://keybase.io/cjb/sigs/r1jKbK2XHT3K67jMZN5eZydp5Y3bnwbrv7Eqkm1-wqU ]

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Comment · 4 days ago
They did a specific-hardware kernel optimization for the Pro 6000 (available on AWS as g7e).
Comment · 4 days ago
Cool! I went to a LAN party in a retired nuclear bunker in 2000. I remember someone had one of the first TFT screens. It was muddy, had zero visibility unless you were directly head on, and what felt like around 3fps. They were trying to play Counter-Strike. (Everyone else had a CRT and laughed at it.)
Comment · 5 days ago
Looks like its only for 16/32-bit ops, which are almost irrelevant to LLM inference, but are relevant to training.
Comment · 22 days ago
Is your argument that it would be really bad if it was true, therefore it's not going to be true? It would be really bad if I got cancer, but I don't respond to that by refusing to think rationally about it.
Comment · 29 days ago
It has particularly good observability (the ability to see the full content of every prompt and response and tool call) compared to other harnesses, that's the main thing that stood out to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
> I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output

I don't know what to say, except that articles exactly like this one have been showing up constantly for the last three years, and literally all of them were obviously outdated and irrelevant within about a month.

Comment · 1 month ago
It could be literally automated. And I'm talking about while they were still minutes away on approach, not during final landing.
Comment · 1 month ago
And yet I am! Care to elaborate?
Comment · 1 month ago
I mean, complete ethical nihilism is one way to try to avoid losing this particular argument, but I don't think you'll get many people to agree with you on it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe ATC could be expected to revoke landing clearance on extremely obviously unstable approaches? I wonder why that didn't happen.
Comment · 1 month ago
They made a series of at least ten (and that's kind of charitable) this-must-never-happen mistakes that likely rise to the level of extraordinary criminal negligence, including ignoring checklists, alarms, configuring the plane for landing in general, and basically everything related to safety.

You don't have to extend sympathy, just as you don't have to extend sympathy to drunk drivers who kill people.

Comment · 1 month ago
> LLMs can't read binary directly without a disassembler.

They totally can. They're remarkably competent at disassembly.

Comment · 2 months ago
The tokens spent to find the vulnerabilities will cost money, and the attackers will usually find themselves more financially incentivized to spend money on finding the vulnerabilities than the defenders.
Comment · 2 months ago
If it was a mechanical keyboard with that case instead of an entire computer they could charge twice as much for it.
Comment · 2 months ago
Waaait what? That's both crazy and crazy useful.

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