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I’ve finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell . I always felt that this must be a very boring read, but the recent rise of trumpism, MAGA, dark enlightenment and all these dystopian things finally made me pick it up. 5/5, highly recommended. Not boring at all. It paints a picture of a totalitarian regime that utilizes new speak , surveillance and propaganda to control the population. Written with Stalinist USSR and Nazi Ge..
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Odkryj najlepsze bonusy, pokies i sloty w polskim kasynie online
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elegantcode.com
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1 year ago
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Odkryj najlepsze bonusy, pokies i sloty w polskim kasynie online Odkryj najlepsze bonusy, pokies i […] The post Odkryj najlepsze bonusy, pokies i sloty w polskim kasynie online appeared first on Elegant Code .
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Janet Jackson might not be the first person who comes to mind when you think of a hacker. But she inadvertently created a malicious payload that performed a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on many different hard drive models manufactured in 2005 and later that rotated at a speed of 5400 rpm (rotations per minute). How did it work? If your computer had a 5400 rpm hard drive, all you had to do was play Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation musi..
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Janet Jackson might not be the first person who comes to mind when you think of a hacker. But she inadvertently created a malicious payload that performed a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on many different hard drive models manufactured in 2005 and later that rotated at a speed of 5400 rpm (rotations per minute). How did it work? If your computer had a 5400 rpm hard drive, all you had to do was play Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation musi..
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Recent advances in Knowledge Distillation (KD) aim to mitigate the high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) by transferring knowledge from a large “teacher” to a smaller “student” model. However, students may inherit the teacher’s privacy when the teacher is trained on private data. In this work, we systematically characterize and investigate membership and memorization privacy risks inherent in six LLM KD techniques. Usin..
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Context-Aware Membership Inference Attacks against Pre-trained Large Language Models
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brave.com
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1 year ago
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Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) on pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) aim at determining if a data point was part of the model’s training set. Prior MIAs that are built for classification models fail at LLMs, due to ignoring the generative nature of LLMs across token sequences. In this paper, we present a novel attack on pre-trained LLMs that adapts MIA statistical tests to the perplexity dynamics of subsequences within a data poin..
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Confidential Guardian: Cryptographically Prohibiting the Abuse of Model Abstention
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brave.com
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1 year ago
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Cautious predictions — where a machine learning model abstains when uncertain — are crucial for limiting harmful errors in safety-critical applications. In this work, we identify a novel threat: a dishonest institution can exploit these mechanisms to discriminate or unjustly deny services under the guise of uncertainty. We demonstrate the practicality of this threat by introducing an uncertainty-inducing attack called Mirage, which delibera..
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I really hate it when I’m exposed to some horrible news online, and feel powerless. There is nothing I can do, I am not responsible, and yet at the same time I have this feeling “this shouldn’t be happening”. There is a temptation to immediately react – if it was printed, I would crumple up the paper and throw it away – yet, reading pixels on the screen I don’t have the right gesture to express my discontent. So I made this little brow..
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It's funny I just realised I was so heads down in programming yesterday that I forgot to write any notes, and so that's why yesterday looked a bit strange with only links. Just like the good old days of linkbloging . A lot of those links are probably dead by now. Just a quick note written in Termux on my mobile device while I listen to the latest All-In pod , having my breakfast. It's all about robots and AI supercomputers. Kind of cr..
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Apenwarr with a healthy reminder that me and my coworkers are already rich, even if we don’t feel rich. And people who are richer don’t feel rich either: We all talk a lot about how the “top 1%” are screwing up society, but software developers nowadays fall mostly in the top 1-2% of income earners […]
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Drew Breunig has great technical posts about utilising AI, but this commentary on how it first breaks – and then promises to fix – sales and hiring processes stands out. Is there a fix for all of this? Will it normalize? I don’t know. I do know that both the examples above have created a […]
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Perfect to use at almost any moment in a software engineer's life, this tool generates "O RLY?" books from just a simple query.
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Congratulations to Rani Zilpelwar, the recipient of 8th Light’s Quarterly Beacon Award, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates team members who shine light on our core values. Rani is a Software Delivery Lead with over a decade of experience building high-quality software and high-trust teams. This quarter, Rani’s leadership and influence grew significantly beyond her original role with one of the world’s largest entertainment providers.....
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John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting programs and helped spur the use of mice within the IBM PC market. He supported the growing number of PC video developers by freely releasing the VGAKIT and TGA utilities, tools that helped developers understand and compensate for the many hardware and software quirks of the era. He was also on the forefront of presentation ....
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John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting programs and helped spur the use of mice within the IBM PC market. He supported the growing number of PC video developers by freely releasing the VGAKIT and TGA utilities, tools that helped developers understand and compensate for the many hardware and software quirks of the era. He was also on the forefront of presentation ....
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Building an AI-Powered Amazon Ad Copy Generator with Flask and Gemini
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blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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1 year ago
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This post is part of the GenAI Series. Back-to-back GenAI-related posts, but I could not resist writing this post instead of a trading-related one. A few days ago, I built a small tool that lets you input an Amazon ASIN and instantly generate marketing copy, including Facebook ads, Amazon A+ content, and SEO product descriptions by using Gemini. The frontend is built with Bootstrap + jQuery, and the backend runs on Python Flask. While this ....
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How does the performance of an algorithm hold up when you put it into a realistic context? Where might Python code defy Big O notation expectations when using a profiler? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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The key principle I follow is this: how I take my notes will evolve over time . I do not stick to any system too dogmatically. That said, I’ve settled on a system that’s been fairly robust and stable for the past few years. I have tweaked it here and there to make it easier for me to find what I need.
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The key principle I follow is this: how I take my notes will evolve over time . I do not stick to any system too dogmatically. That said, I’ve settled on a system that’s been fairly robust and stable for the past few years. I have tweaked it here and there to make it easier for me to find what I need.
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tldr; A paper caught my eye, proposing a way to treat individual agent calls in multi-turn agent training as individual steps. The key contribution - an easy, intuitive method of assigning credit to each step, for quicker training. [Paper] | [Slides] | [Video] Introduction A paper - Reinforcing Multi-Turn Reasoning in LLM Agents via Turn-Level Credit Assignment - caught my eye, prompting me to present a paper club on it.
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https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/i-still-care-about-the-code.html I'm a fan of AI. However at the end of the day what we do is build features . Martin notes that focusing on tests first is a great way to go in the AI age, and I strongly agree. If feature code doesn't have tests, that's fine. As a team we don't pay for writing and maintaining the test. However if we get "bad" tests, that's SO MUCH WORSE than no te....
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Introduction I recently bought a 3D printer, and also recently acquired a new, very popular hobby (for my standards at least): I have a tiny 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm fish tank on my desk! What to do with such a tiny fish tank? Well, it’s not all disadvantages. Disadvantages: Advantages: I … Continue reading Tiny aquarium fish net 3D print
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Repository: @knadh/koanf GitHub release page: v2.2.2 What’s Changed Replace yaml package with go.yaml.in/yaml/v3 by @devhaozi in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/365 Bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 in /providers/cliflagv2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/366 Bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/..
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I had about twelve hours to kill in Vancouver yesterday. I went to my favorite tea place there (Vancha), played some pinball, and then went to a movie for the first time in five years or so. I saw the new F1 movie. I didn’t know anything about F1, and I don’t want to give […]
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Yet another thing that Gemini is really good at. So you are in the middle of coding something, but you get side tracked by something. Maybe it‘s a bug you discover in a related bit of code, or it‘s something you realise you have a gap in your domain knowledge about, or something that crops up as part of the usual back and forth between two people as they work on something, and you suddenly realise that you are side tracked, but it‘s a val....
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Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data. Fir is Heroku’s next generation cloud platform, designed to offer more modern cloud-native cap..
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Core Tenets: Tenant #4: It’s all attribute tags In order to give sherpas as much power in creating filters as they can, we need to allow sherpas the most flexibility to sort/filter/do ranking based on the content on the platform. To that…
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I've been doing some cleaning and following the KonMari Method to do so. I've also borrowed some ideas from Elon's algorithm.
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