falaki

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by falaki 5d ago
A must read for OpenAI engineers.
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by falaki 6d ago
How many security incident reports and postmortems has Dwarfish Petal written in his career? Does he understand the basics of system security? Can he tell the difference between secure and insecure configuration? Paint me skeptical.
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by falaki 6d ago
this ^
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by falaki 6d ago
I cannot wait to have Astra analyze the discovery documents for this lawsuit.
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by falaki 6d ago
The incident report leaves a lot to be desired. - It was done by two institutes with organizational ties to OpenAI: METR and Redwood Research - METR and Redwood Research are institutional pillars of the "AI Safety" wing of the Eff
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by falaki 22d ago
They couldn't pick a more sinister headline for such an awesome technological development.
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by falaki 1mo ago
Fun to read this in light of this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279627
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by falaki 3mo ago
Yes exactly.
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by falaki 3mo ago
Also they suggest every company should build their own benchmark and repeat these tests with new models instead of relying on the SWE bench.
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by falaki 3mo ago
1) Many models are now competitive at the top tier, including open source. 2) GLM 5.2 in particular was a major step forward in open source coding agent performance, 3) Harnesses make a huge difference in cost-performance. 4) Cheaper per-t
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by falaki 4mo ago
The paper has some insights that may apply to AI coding: 1. The first companies that benefitted from the Dynamo were electrical light manufacturers. They were more intimately aware of the potential benefits and since they were new, they bui
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by falaki 5mo ago
Absolutely worth reading.
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by falaki 8mo ago
I worked at Siri (post acquisition) 13 years ago as one of the early data scientists. Let's just say I am not a bit surprised.
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by falaki 9mo ago
There are a lot of Iranian-Americans in Silicon valley, and the broader tech. These people have family and relatives in Iran and not being able to contact has been extremely hard on them. If you have an Iranian colleague, please understand
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by falaki 9mo ago
Some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran. 2. Even in Tehran it is not complete and my friends are abl
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by falaki 9mo ago
Some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran. 2. Even in Tehran it is not complete and my friends are abl
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by falaki 9mo ago
I left the comment on starlink on that thread. I should note some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran
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by falaki 9mo ago
Except that in the common law system of the United States, a judge can throw out the regulation.
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by falaki 9mo ago
Yes, there are NGOs and organizations that sponsor these and pay for them. Here is an example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/12/18/inside-...
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by falaki 9mo ago
I hear after the Ukraine war, Starlink became very good at thwarting jamming. I am confident the Iranians are not as sophisticated as the Russians in than front.
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by falaki 9mo ago
Fortunately, the government cannot enforce complete blackout because thousands of startlink terminals are active inside the country. They have been complaining about it [1] to no avail. Using these terminals activists and journalists contin
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by falaki 9mo ago
In recent years they have been trying to build a nation-wide Intranet that can function while international gateways are blocked. It is not perfect and every time they block the Internet, many issues happen but for the most port critical ne
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by falaki 10mo ago
Alcohol, tobacco and many other products have age restrictions, so do cars and many other products of the modern society. Social media can and should have age restrictions.
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by falaki 10mo ago
I really hope other nations, including the United States, copy this. Australia proved that it is possible. I think the results will be so overwhelmingly positive that others will take notice. Good job Australia! Reading "Anxious Genera
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by falaki 1y ago
Every government program should have an expiration date attached to it when signed into law.
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The Etymology of "Farvahar"(medium.com)
2 points by falaki 1y ago|1 comments
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by falaki 1y ago
Many in the west wrongly assume the symbol they know as Farvahar is a representation of Aura Mazda, the Zoroastrian great god. Some even call the symbol Ahura Mazda. The real story is much more fascinating.
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by falaki 2y ago
When I was hired at Apple/siri more than 10 years ago as a Data Scientist, I was SHOCKED to find that the system beyond speech recognization was rule-based. My team and I attempted multiple times to introduce statistical learning model
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by falaki 2y ago
This article's confusion is where it states "half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya." He thinks because half of the world population speaks an Indo-European language, and because the original speaker
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by falaki 2y ago
And interestingly Iranians are mostly not the descendants of the so-called Indo-Iranian steppe nomads (genetically). But they speak various Iranian languages.

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