Shamar

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Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"(techoversight.org)
297 points by Shamar 8mo ago|165 comments
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by Shamar 8mo ago
The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth add
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A community statement supporting the Open Source Definition (OSD)(osd.fyi)
3 points by Shamar 2y ago|1 comments
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by Shamar 2y ago
# Declaration We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, assert that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9. Any amendments or new definitions shall only be recognized if declared by cle
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The Open Source Definition 2.0 [work in progress](opensourcedefinition.org)
4 points by Shamar 2y ago|1 comments
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by Shamar 2y ago
> Why does open source have to mean that you, the user, are on equal footing with where the copyright holder was before they even started? Where is that written? It's written on the OSI page about license approval: ""&quot
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by Shamar 2y ago
The problem with hype around LLM is that people without much experience in the field can't think of anything else. So much they forget the basics of the discipline. What do you think cross validation is for? To compare different weight
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by Shamar 2y ago
Compiling Emacs on a PDP-11 wasn't cheap either. And by today standards, a PDP-11 is quite comparable with the cost of the server farms used in training. And yet Emacs was released under GPL. So the economic argument is pretty miopic.
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by Shamar 2y ago
It's not just marketing: European AI Act impose several compliance obligations to corporations building AI system, including serious scientific scrutiny on the whole training process. Such obligations are designed to mitigate the inher
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by Shamar 5y ago
> Does this somehow smuggle the training dataset back into the VM? Turns out you were right about this: http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_n... Obviously I was not aware of this, so
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by Shamar 5y ago
The term "absorbed" was not for the people in the field, but for people who don't know what folding means. IMHO it's a better metaphor then "learning", because learning is a _subjective_ experience that everyon
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by Shamar 5y ago
I strongly encourage you to prove your statement with a script that use the logs saved and a random "model" and get back the exact source dataset.
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by Shamar 5y ago
Beyond the global output and error of each sample from the last epoch, the log also includes the weight update of one single (fully connected) node for each layer. During the compilation phase, the training dataset is projected on a complex
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“AI” demystified: a decompiler for “artificial neural networks”(tesio.it)
24 points by Shamar 5y ago|11 comments
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Ethical and Socially-Aware Data Labels(nexa.polito.it)
1 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments
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by Shamar 8y ago
It's worth noticing that while they didn't target specific people or made the attack undetectable through cache control trickery, the tools they are looking for can be used to detect such evidence removal. So they are probably bui
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Russian Government's agency exploits overlooked browsers vulnerabilities(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by Shamar 8y ago|1 comments
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by Shamar 8y ago
This is very interesting: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/#tool... Nearly 70% of JavaScript developers have less than 10 years of experience (with an average of 8.3 years). This means they h
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by Shamar 8y ago
> But what's the point of showing it? To reason about reliability and its impact on costs. > Real systems have 99%+ uptime, or they aren't deployed. Uptime is not correctness. > failure rates are astonishingly low [...] &
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by Shamar 8y ago
> I'm arguing against what that particular graph insinuates. The idea that nothing works anymore when the sum of all unreliable parts creates a completely unreliable result. No. That graph shows the probability of the whole system w
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by Shamar 8y ago
> The things that don't work, they generally don't work 100% of the time. The things that do work, they generally work 100% of the time. If you exclude the guns that kill, guns are safe. If you exclude all security vulnerabilit
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by Shamar 8y ago
> Plus in this case the awake call could be named something more intuitive This is an interesting objection. I find awake/awakened/forgivewkp intuitive names, but I'm not a native English speaker. I'm not going to add
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by Shamar 8y ago
Jehanne hacker here. > doesn't this suffer from a race condition? This is a good question I should probably clarify in the article as it has been asked before but I can't answer in that forum (see https://lobste.rs&#
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JehanneOS: Simplicity and the curse of Frankenstein(jehanne.io)
4 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments
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Firefox: Undetectable Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Attacks through JavaScript(reddit.com)
1 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments
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Universal Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence(thepublicvoice.org)
1 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments
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Hacking License(tesio.it)
1 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments
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The Intelligent Symbiosis(tesio.it)
2 points by Shamar 8y ago|0 comments