Milo Trujillo

Thinking about LLM model collapse 🔥 https://backdrifting.net/post/082_model_collapse

Inspirational. Aspirational. I want all my papers to be like this.

My microwave emitted a loud displeased electric burp, a bright flash, and began wafting out smoke from near the magnetron, so safe to say my oven is cooked 😔

I've attempted a fair number of DIY electronics repairs, but I draw the line at high voltage capacitors that can zap me to the perma-nappy, so goodnight sweet prince to that microwave

There’s this collapsed lamppost I pass on the way to work, and each time I go by it’s disassembled just a bit more and things are missing or splayed out across the grass. It feels like decay, watching nature reclaim life, first with scavengers, then with fungus. All the little human ants nibbling away at the lamppost carcass to support their colonies

I'll be at HOPE for the weekend -- say hi if you're around! 😄

A “sperm data layer” by an AI company sounds extremely Boston. Missed opportunity to call it SperML, though.

A dear friend is graduating soon, so it's time to learn how to make a pretty capital B to address their congratulations letter

Have LLMs had a big impact in the Sovereign Citizen movement? They have a machine that can yield pseudo-law gibberish with citations and footnotes so much faster now. A cutting edge of bespoke legal theory.

@wdormann@infosec.exchange Now that I've read the technical details, it looks like dirty frag modifies the page cache of /usr/bin/su, so forcing a reload of all cached files with echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches undoes the exploit's changes, letting you test the exploit from start again.

There was an enormous boom in Boston today. I felt it as my lights flickered and speaker popped. The press say it was a meteor entering the atmosphere, creating a seismic-scale sonic shockwave as it vaporized. Blissfully unaware of the broader implications, I left to get dinner, a chill in the air and anxiety in the eyes of my neighbors. I found the pizza joint down the street and the Mexican restaurant a block further have both permanently closed. The local church and liquor store, ironically almost adjacent, have both been boarded up, offering no sanctuary by the clergy or the bottle. Police cars circled me three times, like vultures. They can sense that something sick has happened, just as I do, just as the storekeepers surely had before they fled. We are all changed now by what has entered our sky.

There are fluffballs with faces in my building's lobby today!

People before the cell phone era had to memorize lots of phone numbers and can remember numeric sequences for friends or family. I remember my IP address through middle and high school. Why is this seared in there?

@wdormann@infosec.exchange

1. Yes, I just learned about both, ran the mitigation, and it's stopping Copy Fail 2, but the Dirty Frag exploit continues to work. Sorry for the tangent in the thread.

2. Ubuntu 24.04

A new trend I've noticed is *many* independent researchers asking for arXiv endorsement on Reddit. None of them share their drafts (until commenters demand it), just "here's my endorsement code, can you approve me for cs.SE / cs.AI?" I suspect that LLMs are encouraging this practice. Very strange.

So I can’t just mail a liquid. Like if I go to USPS with a puddle and some stamps they’ll tell me no. But what about a cardboard box filled with liquid? Is there a maximum sogginess the postal service will accept? How moist can my mail be?

I just saw someone describe training machine learning models as "rewardmaxxing" and - while not wrong - yikes

… but if training a model is “rewardmaxxing,” then I guess overfitting to training data is “rewardgooning”

@marqueandrepris@mastodon.social If you feel so strongly about the vision then I encourage you to fork the project and revive it. We're on the same page about the abuses of flock, but I no longer see this kind of tool as a useful avenue for holding a surveillance state to account.

@marqueandrepris@mastodon.social No one. The project has lost utility - location accuracy in urban environments was never precise enough for tasks like "bring me from point A to point B avoiding as much surveillance as possible," so the primary value of the project was raising awareness about the degree to which we're surveilled. In my mind, the proliferation of technologies like Flock and Ring have made the value of such an awareness campaign highly questionable, and I believe resources are better spent elsewhere.

@marqueandrepris@mastodon.social No, I haven't maintained that app in almost a decade and have no interest in further development at this time.

Anonymous had other options than the Guy Fawkes mask