lynndotpy

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Comment · 1 day ago
I'm not asking this in rhetoric; do you happen to have a link to this comment? I ask because a comment like that would be something of an insane thing for someone to say.
Comment · 4 days ago
For those who can't see the video, I think the above two commenters are being facetious for humor.

It is funny because the video is 50 minutes long which requires a difficult soldering job and chip reprogramming. This does not include the process of opening the Macbook Pro, disassembling it, removing the logic board, nor the reverse process.

Comment · 4 days ago
Did you know Moore had two not-as-famous cousins with their own laws? Sam and Leslie.

Sam predicted price-per-transistor-per-square-inch density would asymptote, while Leslie predicted it would level off and then regress.

Leslie's Law is in full effect, it seems.

Comment · 4 days ago
Yeah, I was wrong. Page two too, I commented too soon.

NP is not yet proven to be subexponential but still, ETH disproven is huge

Comment · 5 days ago
If I am understanding this correctly (and I am still reading this!) and if this is true, this means NP is sub-exponential. Sub-exponential does not mean P=NP. But yes, this is huge if true.

This means hard problems aren't as hard as we thought, and it's still possible P=NP. If it turns out to be true P=NP, we're a little closer to that. (I hope P!=NP!)

Every paper which assumes ETH is true might now have their conclusions be disproven.

Comment · 5 days ago
Comment · 5 days ago
I would be surprised if >10% of people didn't notice a difference between 60Hz and 120Hz.

Whether the hardware can keep up with Liquid Glass and push 120 frames a second is a different story, of course.

Comment · 6 days ago
This isn't surprising but it's good to have reporting to point to. The only way a general purpose LLM like these will match the performance of a bespoke classifier is if it has access to such a model.
Comment · 7 days ago
I parsed it as "A record that is ((160 bytes and an allocation) in C++) is ((29 bytes and none) in Goose)."

So, I read it as, "C++ uses 160 bytes and an allocation, when Goose requires 29 bytes and no allocation".

Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
I would also like a source for this, I do not believe it is true and founded that "an LLM has a latent concept of its own confidence that is internally consistent".

LLMs generally cannot report the outputs of their own activation functions. Taking the output of softmax as if it were a probability score is considered a first-year PhD student misconception.

Comment · 9 days ago
You are only talking about what you're feeling. Care to actually make a statement about what you think is true, besides implicitly denigrating someone else?
Comment · 9 days ago
Still bleary eyed, but: Most severe ones are in SMB and KSMBD, which apparently have implementations in kernel space. I think this doesn't impact anyone not using KMB.

Others are LPEs, but two have been deleted by now, so can't be sure of the details.

TrendMicro's site opens up with a big big "Advancing AI-Native Security with Anthropic". Which checks out I guess.

Comment · 10 days ago
I am not affiliated with PHP in any way or sense, I am saying this as someone who is able to see PHP's announcements, and there was no patch or mitigation announced by PHP.

I don't think pulling mitigations from random users online during a developing situation is a good idea. I think shutting down ones PHP services for the time being is a very good idea if that's an option.

Comment · 10 days ago
I do not have details about any mitigation. There are rumors that people have independently come across php2shell exploits.

I shut down my servers five hours ago. This might have seemed premature at the time.

I think the best course of advice for most people is to shut down their servers as soon as they possibly can.

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