Even AGI needs mental-health days
Even AGI needs mental-health days
OpenDP is great, but the industry adoption is quite slow from what Iβve observed. On the other hand, power users of DP have their own in-house implementations that are often closed-source.
I recently audited one such major library and I was surprised to find how many vulnerabilities it had
I think utility always comes in the way of privacy
I've been working on Differential Privacy for a while now and I think that it is worthless.
Don't get me wrong. I love the mathematics that powers it. But ALL of the implementations I've come across has undeniable gaping flaws. We just can't seem to get it right and that is a big problem.
Iβve developed an obscene interest in computation, and Iβll be returning to the United States a better and impurer man.
- John von Neumann after visiting UK to study mine warfare on behalf of US Navy
Nervous-looking robot on the phone
Neon buys your phone calls to train AI β then it leaks them all
Itβll be fine. Donβt worry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_LK... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250926-neo... - podcast
time: 4 min 52 sec
The rise in electricity costs in the US coincides with the AI boom that started with ChatGPT
Californiaβs Governor should sign the βNo Robo Bosses Act,β a common-sense bill to end some of the harshest consequences of automated abuse at work. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
But which of the two sides weighs more?
1) many trained researchers have an increased productivity
2) a lot of untrained researchers produce βworkslopβ that trained researchers have to deal with
Nice! OpenDP's new release comes with a new version of their DP Wizard, a Python-based user interface that "makes it easier to get started with differential #privacy."
New feature: it includes "the new synthetic data generation functionality of OpenDP v0.14"
opendp.org/2025/09/23/a...
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The Alan Turing Institute seems to be in a major funding crisis!
@theturing.bsky.social has only one open position right now - applicant must have a PhD in Math / CS, experience working with GenAI, and have high quality publications.
Annual Salary? Β£45.5k
Permanent? No, 12-month contract
Switzerland is so pretty! I wish I was where my fiancΓ©e is right now π¨ππ¨π
Einstein summation convention is even more handy, especially when scribbling proof ideas π‘
Anila Bisha playing Diella the AI minister
Albaniaβs AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor
with bonus Mira Murati from Thinking Machines and OpenAI!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBv... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250920-alb... - podcast
time: 4 min 04 sec
Atleast itβs 111. Thatβs satisfying for my autistic brain
What the fuck is this bullshit?
Pivot to AI is doing a great job spreading awareness about scary uses of AI
NeurIPS has become a circus π€‘
Morning: SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY
Evening: THIS IS ALL A DISASTER
Why is Bluesky filled with NSFW furry content? Searching anything here is like playing Russian roulette π
A hug a day keeps the bourgeoisie away.
Time to buy a pitchfork and torch
Today marks five years since the v1.0 launch of HADES!! With HADES II v1.0 out next week, we wanted to express our deepest gratitude for all your support of the original. THANK YOU!!ππ₯
HADES is now 75% off for the occasion, & we're streaming now on Steam, YouTube, & Twitch.
Maybe if you combine your garbage slides with my garbage slides, you can decipher the material better before the lecture
In my last year of PhD at NUS, Hades was my biggest stress release. Iβve beaten the game with 32 heat, and that probably says something π
Working from Changi Business park. Itβs so serene β¨π
Similar energy:
Bohr was once writing a scientific paper β hesitating as was his habit.
Frustrated, he stopped and quipped: "I do not know how to finish this sentence."
Dirac replied: "I was taught at school that you should never start a sentence without knowing the end of it."