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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Ken Kifer wrote a bunch of amazing bicycle content! Here's a mirror of his pages: https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/
Comment · 1 year ago
What sort of effort would it take to make an LLM training honeypot resulting in LLMs reliably spewing nonsense? Similar to the way Google once defined the search term "Santorum"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22... where
The way LLMs are trained with such a huge corpus of data, would it even be possible for a single entity to do this?
Comment · 2 years ago
Not saying anything about the current storm, but a storm as strong as the Carrington Event[1] would make modern day life on Earth pretty unpleasant. Some of the potential impacts are documented in Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event [2] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12507/severe-space...
Comment · 3 years ago
I researched duct cleaners recently and found a similar set of dubious businesses. There are several businesses named "American Air Duct Cleaning of [insert city name]". Google Maps has 70-120 5 star reviews. They all say things like “David and Oscar did a great job”…. from Florida to Texas to other states... always David and/or Oscar for each place! All the reviews are in the last 6 months or so. All the reviews are relatively unique and the reviewers are not new Google reviewers… there’s definitely some sort of weird Google Review scam going on here. All the websites say “Family/Locally Owned & Operated" yet they're identical web pages.
I'm surprised by how unsophisticated the approach appears. Interesting to see the problem is not limited to duct cleaning businesses.
Comment · 5 years ago
I just learned about the Citadel/Robinhood connection from this https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/, which the author https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/13546053632874864... explained as "Why it's not Robinhood/Reddit vs. Hedge Funds. It's Hedge Funds vs. Hedge Funds vs. Wall Street, with Robinhood as a fig leaf". The sidebars in the article explain a lot of the lingo.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anyone else not logged in to Facebook find the "See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook" pop-up a bit disconcerting?
- 25% planning & aligning with other teams
- 25% coding
- 25% testing/verifying
- 25% code review/rework
One argument was that agentic coding speeds up that coding part a bunch. So maybe there's 2x speedup in coding. But that's only a small speedup in the totality of everything software engineers do.