Link. I’m on Mastodon for now. Everyone is watching Bluesky.
Daily Archives: April 28, 2023
Growing a micro-LLM with Jane Austen: “Ten minutes in, BabyGPT’s vocabulary has grown…”
Link. Great explainer. You can choose from several training sources.
“By tracing this genomic evolution over the past 100 million years, the so-called Zoonomia Project has revealed millions of stretches of human DNA that have changed little since our shrew-like ancestors”
Link. Great research and an excellent article. Link may allow free access. “… some of these shifts helped human brain cells grow for a longer period of time during childhood”
“One of the bottlenecks faced by Siri is that “top executives” at Apple are wary of Siri making major gaffes in its responses.”
Link. I actually like Siri and use it for simple tasks daily.
“in 2022, NSO Group customers widely deployed at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains against civil society targets around the world.”
Link. Remember when we thought it was possible to secure a complex system?
Large Language Models – evolutionary tree and selection algorithm 2023
Link. A snapshot of the state of the art. Taken from Mooler et al (GitHub, linked).
iOS App Update hangs without an error message in infinite download: a general approach
Link. Verify payment, turn off Screen Time, Restart Phone, test free app download, update an app, update all, etc.
A practical guide to LLMs.
Link. The diagram is worth keeping.
“Roberts has claimed judicial independence in order to circumvent an investigation into judicial independence.”
Link. Roberts has earned the scorn of history.
Trump campaign hired non-crazies to look for fraud: “Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud theories and allegations for Trump’s campaign in late 2020 and found they were “all false,”
Link. Curious how they found him. Love to know what they did with the results.
Five Worlds of AI: “it could be that for most jobs, humans will still be more reliable and energy-efficient”
Link. Not Aaronson’s main point but energy efficiency is pretty much all we got. Hope it’s enough.