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jdefr89
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Vulnerability Researcher @ MIT. Develop both software and hardware solutions to many security based computing problems.
- jdefr89 parentIt is pretty and it can do pretty much exactly what Rust enums do if they learned basic idiomatic Go.. Rust is a cult at this point honestly.
- What is with people and their need for enums? Functionally using go const with iota gives you the same damn thing and people use enums that way 99% of the time. I find Rusts reliance on enums annoying as hell. At this point I consider Rust a bandwagon language. The syntax is abysmal and we have had memory safe languages far before Rust. That I wont get into because as a Vulnerability Researcher I find the Rust push super misguided and it sets me off.
- They don't seem to understand Go much at all. Comparisons to Rust are somewhat misplaced but that's a different topic... Back to errors. Errors are interface values. They are simple yet powerful. You can create sentinel errors that can be wrapped or just passed to be checked then discarded. Go has all the functionality it needs to provide what ever it is Rust cult members believe makes Rust error handling so great. You can use the primitive constructs Go provides to do nearly the same damn things Rust can do and it won't look like a pile of hieroglyphs your local crackhead would draw. Best of all... Its simple and the syntax of Go (veering off topic) doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. Stop gaslighting yourselves into thinking Rust syntax is reasonable and that its some perfectly proven language with all edge cases put to rest..
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- I hold a R&D Position at an MIT lab. I also hold gov clearances for DoD work. They are pretty accepting of the fact that a lot of folks in the field are neurodivergent. No one cares because if you deliver results you deliver results. No one cares about shit under the Trump administration because its an absolute joke that has thus far only stood to get in the way of the way we carry out research. The party of "minimal government" sure as hell loves to tell public established institutions how to carry out their own damn business.
- The amount of pressure young kids are under... I am surprised the numbers aren't much higher. I grew up with debilitating OCD/Tourettes. I am glad kids growing up today have more resources than I did. Society itself is sick and broken. If that many kids are having issues.. Maybe the system is the problem here?
- Ok.. Let’s ask a different question. Assuming development of super-intelligence is possible.. How do you measure it? What criteria satisfies the “this is super intelligence”? You honestly sound like most pseudo-intellectuals I hear discussing this very topic..: Ironic how you think you’re the brilliant one and it’s others who are stupid… Actually not really ironic a fool doesn’t know he is a fool.
- Professional Security Researcher here.. I haven't really seen any models reliably find and exploit a 0day. Folks are are at least TRYING to develop such models internally at the MIT lab where I work, but not sure how far along they are coming yet.. If a model is developed that can find a 0day or two (like Big Sleep which I think maybe found some) I won't be surprised but keep in mind fuzzers find thousands of real 0days with far less compute... These capabilities are of course something worth looking into, but too many people are promising 0day oracles already and that simply just isn't where we are right now (or ever? ). Sorry for bad grammar typing quickly from phone here.
- Yea they sound like plausible enough arguments.. I often test my vague input against structured ones and for many tasks it didn't seem like hallucinations happened significantly less. Honestly the more structured you have to be, the less "general" your model probably is, and in theory you want your model to be as general as possible. Seems like here, you're simply helping it over-fit.. At least that's what my intuition tells me but I am yet to really check that out either.
- Its sad content like this makes it too front page. AI has been developed and used at both companies far before LLM TRANSFORMERS made such a hit. The author clearly doesn't have even a basic understanding of what AI is... AI is a giant umbrella term. The hype is essentially all about Transformer based models and I time will show its a hype bubble they don't need to be part of. I will never understand how people with so little technical knowledge on a subject can make grandiose claims like "Apple is losing out on AI!" and be taken seriously. Every company is high on their own damn supply with this pushing AI nonsense. I don't need language models shoved in my face by yet another company. I respect Apples approach far more than everyone else trying to ride the LLM bandwagon.
- That’s exactly the problem the author has. Lying and hype have replaced genuine innovation. It’s sad that lying and pushing nonsense is “part of the game” because it shouldn’t be. The game is only of benefit to a handful of people like Altman, not the humanity or to the field in general. I am sick of it as well… Tech has become grifter central and everyone is high on their own fucking supply…
- I think from the authors perspective, LLM hype has been mostly the same exact thing you’re accusing him of doing. People with very little technical background claiming AGI is near or all these CEOs pushing these nonsense narratives are getting old.. People are blindly trusting these people and offloading all their thinking to a sophisticated stochastic machine. It’s useful yes, super cool yes. Some super god like power or something that brings us to AGI? No probably not. I can’t blame him. I am sick of the hype. Grifters are coming out of the woodwork in a field with too many grifters to begin with. All these AI/LLM companies are high of their own supply and it’s getting old.
- It's ironic because the executive aspects of the job are easily the ones almost anyone can do. I say that as someone who has created and sold startup with a couple friends. We had to take on the role of both engineers and executives. Guess which one was far far easier and which one actually mattered?
- It's cute when people think they can all exploit the current market and "get rich" when in reality they almost always just help the same people who are already rich, get richer. I say that as someone who has himself, started and sold a startup with a couple friend... The reality is I got SUPER LUCKY. The chances of any individual "making it" in the system that currently exists are minuscule to none. You might be better off playing the lottery and hoping to hit big. The chances of either are ridiculously low. The author didn't say how to solve the bubble crisis we are watching. Usually they aren't things you can solve. He simply acknowledged a huge one is forming and he isn't wrong.