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“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct towards a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another towards a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.”
Would be super curious to see an Ai teacher vs a human.
If the Ai can’t get the same motivational effect from expectation setting…
That points to an interesting potential limitation of Ai learning systems.
Stanford tested two ways of giving feedback to students. Group one got standard comments. Group two got the same comments with one added sentence: "I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know you can reach them."
Group two improved at four times the rate as group one, despite having the same correction.
Give your children the gift of high expectations.
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Announcing AI IQ Cybersecurity: the most comprehensive collection of cybersecurity benchmarks.
…AND…
OpenPatcher-S1: a combination open source model that achieves a SOTA result on ExploitBench among all open source models.
OpenPatcher-S1 is a combination AI model, meaning it combines multiple AI models together to achieve better results than any model individually, and it is comprised exclusively of open source models.
The production of this model was a joint effort between TrustedRouter and AI IQ, spearheaded by @jperla and yours truly, and you can try it on TrustedRouter today.
OpenPatcher-S1 achieved a 7/16 on CVE-2024-2887, while Mythos 5 achieved 16/16 and the best individual open model with published results achieved only 3/16, placing OpenPatcher-S1 squarely between the pre-existing open source SOTA for ExploitBench and the overall SOTA set by Mythos 5.
OpenPatcher-S1 is being tested on the full suite of ExploitBench tasks and is expected to maintain its open source SOTA results across the complete set of tasks.
Additionally, TrustedRouter and AI IQ are collaborating on a new proprietary model called Poseidon that is still in development and has already exceeded OpenPatcher-S1 in results on ExploitBench test runs.
Poseidon is still in development but you can try out OpenPatcher-S1 on TrustedRouter today.
We support the responsible use of AI cybersecurity products to patch vulnerabilities and make software safer.
Many software dev tools surface vulnerabilities to developers in order to help them improve security.
And we believe that the world of software is made safer with widespread access to the means to upgrade the security of software, while still limiting offensive capabilities to those below the capabilities of the absolute frontier.
Link to AI IQ Cybersecurity and the OpenPatcher-S1 model on TrustedRouter below.
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Inspired by @karpathy’s autoresearch, I built Autofoundry — a simple CLI that lets you run experiments across cloud GPUs with one command:
autofoundry run
You get a real-time interactive table showing GPU availability and pricing across Runpod, Vast, Lambda Labs and PRIME Intellect. Pick what you want and it spins up the instances, streams results live to your terminal, aggregates metrics into a report, and tears everything down.
A great first script to try is:
scripts/run_autoresearch.sh
The terminal UI is straight out of Neon Genesis Evangelion (w/ full NERV Central Command vibes) and the project is open source (MIT licensed).
My understanding of the research and from direct experience bulding campuses and classrooms - increasing window size and the amount of direct sunlight in each classroom would outperform this.
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Most of the people doing important work are people you’ve never heard of—they want it that way. Most happy people don’t need you to know how happy they are—they aren’t thinking about you at all.
Same - this was a “before and after” book for me.
Every year, I re-read The Goal. This book was mandatory reading in my first industrial engineering class in college and it changed my outlook on life.
It follows the fictional story of a factory manager who only has a few months to save his failing factory or else it will be closed by the parent company. To add salt to the wound, his marriage is also failing at home.
He meets a consultant / physicist who teaches him principles around knowing your goal, the theory of constraints, cultural transformation and using common sense.
It's a fun read because the author uses fictional stories and scenarios from this manager's life to teach these concepts to the reader in a digestible format.
Almost everything can be distilled down to a process of ongoing improvement and the application of principles from this book will show you how to improve every facet of your life.
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"Everyone thinks you can hire someone to do this."
"That fails 100% of the time."
The secret to building a successful startup, according to Sam Altman?
Doing this every day:
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Zoom + Calendar integration that measures when meetings run long depending on certain attendees and automatically blocks overflow time to future meetings to prevent the snowball of being consistently late.
#sparkfile
There should be a startup round that's before pre-seed that's just investors and founders agreeing on funding a few simple experiments that they want to run together.
Wife to me: "If you got a tattoo, people wouldn't think you're dangerous, they'd just think you're a chef."
Key Point: How the teachers interacted with students and how they scaled the student <> teacher relationship to thousands of students. open.spotify.com/episode/4v8…
Key Point: The best program designers are just great product people because they understand measurement and iteration.
open.spotify.com/episode/4v8…
