#FloridaMan, lifelong educator, lapsed scholar (HKU PhD). 20 years in the Pearl River Delta. writing about systems, AI, infrastructure, history, and theory
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I’ve finally collected my thoughts on the Hugging Face incident: whether we should anthropomorphize it, what it means to talk about the “sociology” of an AI swarm, how I think the behavior emerged, and what it suggests about AI alignment more broadly.
🤖 Made with AI
Met a guy once who told me the first time he went to Shenzhen was 1979 and he was in the trunk of a car
The past is a foreign country. You could drive through Afghanistan as a hippie woman but places like Vietnam were worn torn and China was closed off to the outside world.
Now you can backpack through Vietnam and tour the Forbidden City of Beijing but the old hippie trail is nearly impossible to recreate.
I’d vote for him over GOP but in any other circumstance being a Hasan buddy is a deal breaker
Massive Dwarkesh F. Podcast with a ‘historian’ of the Aztec who says he first encountered them as a topic via… Jared Diamond
20 years ago I observed that a key difference between HK and SZ/Guangdong was that HK people seemed to not be having fun and generally not happy. And now neither are fun or generally happy.
Interesting. Haven’t seen this one before
Wow, this is an even more plausible theory for the purpose of the ancient Roman Dodecahedron!
I think she is onto it here.
Again with weaving, but this time it's with metal as well, the demonstration shows a pretty convincing match to the gold chain work found in ancient gold caches. And it's a process that would naturally use all the different widths of the holes, for the drawing and stretching of the metal chain. She gives two different size examples in the linked complete video.
It's also an explanation for why it would have been found in Roman military archeological sites, as it would work not only for metal chain, but for cordage as well.
youtu.be/lADTLozKm0I?is=4Zu-…
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My remarks from this piece:
An insightful piece well worth a read: politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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In case you wanted to learn how to reverse engineer the moods of an LLM!
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Inspired by @Sauers_ , I've been working on finding "persona neurons" which cause the model to inhabit incredibly rich perspectives with only one neuron being steered. This one is a particular favorite. I can't believe this is an instruct tune! (Olmo 3.1 32b instruct)
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Ok, I just checked this, and its literally running a freaking TensorFlow Lite model on 960×540 images with INT8 quantization every couple of seconds in an attempt to figure out what game you are playing.
It's literally called "alex.tflite" and its literally AlexNet and seems to follow torchvision.models.alexnet. As far as I can tell this does some strange nearest neighbor feature comparisons against a DB and literally doesn't work 99% of the time, you love to see your CPU get wasted every other second by this thing though. It also just seems to dump its results into the void because the consent gate comes later.
Anyways, here's the tf model graph and some dumped captures.
live-tweeting on samsung findings were fun.
i'll let my agents give it a bit more time, but this document is already the most comprehensive breakdown of some key concerns of tizen i've seen run on a live device.
it takes like a good while for me just to scroll through it (there's about 44 writeups as of right now on individual functionality).
release is probably happening in a few days.
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I’ll take a shot at answering one of these good questions. These poor young people are not dying for "no reason". They’re dying because Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians don’t want to be murdered. I hope this helps.
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“COBOL is still deeply load-bearing in banking, especially at the core: account ledgers, overnight batch processing, and card/ATM authorization. The widely cited estimates are that roughly 43% of banking systems and 95% of ATM swipes run on COBOL code, and that around 80% of in-person banking transactions pass through it.”
There’s a winner
Someone has created a vulnerable PHP website, loaded it with a Bitcoin wallet, and challenged the Internet to hack into it and they can keep the Bitcoin. It has a running timer to show if the PHP exploitability was over-hyped. stealmybitcoin.com/
