‘We came to wreck everything, and ruin your life – God sent us.’

Joined April 2013
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arxiv.org/abs/2606.19535 They backdoored an LLM so that it writes insecure code when runing on specific GPUs!
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I recently received a paper on the Ottoman Elections of 1918 at Explorations . . . but it turns out there were no such elections! It turns out that the paper was an elaborate fraud. The author rewrote an excellent JCE paper on the industrialization and the Russian Revolution. They put it through AI to rewrite the text but they kept everything else the same. So there are regressions with "distance to petrograd" and "distance to Moscow" in them. The maps they produce have the geo-coordinates of Russia, not the Ottoman Empire. More on this ridiculous paper and the new age of academic fraud at open.substack.com/pub/markko…
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i edited some royalty-free YouTube stock music into the 1984 british movie Threads. i think it's better now. more cheerful
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Be an AI doomer because it’s a bubble that’s deskilling white collar workers; it supercharges the surveillance state; and, as this report shows, it’s erasing critical thinking abilities. Don’t be a doomer because you think AI will end the world or become super intelligent
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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Twelve reasons to learn Russian:
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Makes sense to me. Stalin presided over an unprecedented and rapid literacy boom. The works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin became widely available on a mass scale and were actively promoted by the state in its new educational infrastructure, libraries, and worker reading circles. In fact, there are few examples of societies that were more obsessed with making sure you read political theory. This of course started with the Leninist anti-illiteracy campaign but was expanded enormously and institutionalized under Stalin
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good ideas should be acknowledged. Google books, plus anthropic's destruction of books, plus genAI's theft of researcher's data and claiming for its own. AI is grift, theft, and the abuse of the commons. People who care about the future of humanity need to oppose it
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Am teaching grad complexity theory at CMU; about 1/3 of the lectures will be new (vs. last time), 'modern' results. Videos are going onto youtube.com/@ComplexityTheor… which will later also feature student videos. We did Williams (/Cook-Mertz/Shalunov) TIME(t) in SPACE(~√t) today.
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Bunsen burners don’t reduce contamination. It was all an illusion. My biology teacher was wrong. This isn’t surprising, though. So much of biology, and the way we do experiments, claims to be “scientific” but is actually swaddled in mysticism. Just walk into a laboratory and watch biologists for a day; they will do all sorts of weird rituals that — if you ask them to explain — will elicit no answer other than, “Well, that’s the way I was taught to do it.” Why are washes always five minutes long, for example? Why are they always done in groups of three? Did anybody actually ever measure this stuff? The Bunsen burner wasn’t even invented for its modern use. Robert Bunsen, a German chemist, invented it in the 1850s to heat up his chemical reactions. Microbiologists later used it to flame and sterilize instruments, which makes sense. And then there was all this debate and controversy about Pasteur’s swan-neck flasks, and this idea that microbes were floating in the air and contaminating things, and so microbiologists decided to take the Bunsen burners they had used to sterilize instruments and just …. put the open flames on their benches to sterilize the air. But this was pure mysticism. Nobody ever actually studied whether or not this worked. Someone ought to open up a lab and raise money to run “mysticism experiments.” Like, how bad is it (really) if we don’t wash things for five minutes in three cycles? How bad would it be if we didn’t incubate with antibodies at 4 degrees Celsius overnight? Why do cells eventually saturate in LB media? (Some people argue it’s because they run out of carbon, but others claim that's totally a lie and it's actually the magnesium.) Much of experiment is tacit illusion.
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"RSA-1024 is equivalent to 309 digits; according to standard GNFS scaling this is merely 78x more computation than RSA-260. I estimate the cost of factoring RSA-1024 at market GPU prices to be roughly $30M"
important clarification about the factorization of RSA-260
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here's a doll who got herself pegged by a cis girl circa 850 ce, so what's your excuse?
Replying to @Born2Takfir
As i promised to show the earliest known Pegging cases in Islamic Sources: This was recorded around 850 CE "A Woman in Medina was caught with an effeminate man and she was penetrating him and was punished later by the governor and then paraded on a camel and someone asked her..
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"If you are trying understand the microarchitecture of the SM the first step is to never use the term CUDA core or Tensor core as these are marketing terms that help provide a magnitude of performance."
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It creeps up on you. You slowly run out of friends on whose couch you can still reasonably crash, you run out of excuses to make for staying over at people's places and it slowly goes from three nights on the street in between having a bed to a full week, to weeks, to realizing-
that first night as a homeless person gotta be crazy
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Inviting all ur bros to the same room when Mossad is after you. usenix.org/system/files/1401…
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The best video you'll see all day
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Full Qwen3.8 27B Weight Atlas I took all 1199 tensors of the model, quantized every one into INT8, INT4 and FP8, and put the measured error on one interactive canvas. Worst tensor is visual.pos_embed, 11.85 dB at INT4 vs 18.3 median linear attention in_proj_a and in_proj_b are the weakest family of the language part, 16.1 and 16.6 dB vs 18.4 for mlp at INT8 the model is clean except 1 tensor, the mtp draft head: 17.8 dB, next worst is 30 fp8 is 31.5 dB everywhere, 0.23 dB spread across 590 matrices Click any cell, you get the histogram, spectrum, hot channels and a verdict.
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i get the sense this wikipedia editor finds homeopathy annoying
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If you're interested in SSD internals and how to use them efficiently, our paper, “How to Write to SSDs,” has been accepted to VLDB and is currently on the Hacker News front page. vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-l…
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Pleased to announce that Tuesday my new book came out. But the three free version is here, and I thought I’d share what i consider to be the strengths of it. 1/n mixtape.scunning.com
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