Casually rotating 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses to bypass rate limits.

I am not in IT security, but find it fascinating what clever tricks people use to break (into) stuff.

In a better world, we might use this energy for advancing humanity instead of looking how we can hurt each other. (Not saying the author is doing that, just lamenting that ITS is necessary due to hostile actors in this world. )

Ragebait?

I’m in robotics and find plenty of use for ML methods. Think of image classifiers, how do you want to approach that without oversimplified problem settings?
Or even in control or coordination problems, which can sometimes become NP-hard. Even though not optimal, ML methods are quite solid in learning patterns of highly dimensional NP hard problem settings, often outperforming hand-crafted conventional suboptimal solvers in computation effort vs solution quality analysis, especially outperforming (asymptotically) optimal solvers time-wise, even though not with optimal solutions (but “good enough” nevertheless). (Ok to be fair suboptimal solvers do that as well, but since ML methods can outperform these, I see it as an attractive middle-ground.)

Nah, I wouldn’t give up on these so easily. They still have applications and advantages over transformers, e.g., efficiency, where the quality might suffice for the reduced time/space conplexity (Vanilla transformer still has O(n^2), and I have yet to find an efficient and qualitatively similar causal transformer.)

But regarding sequence modeling / reasoning about sequences ability, attention models are the hot shit and currently transformers excel on that.

Some AI researchers found it obvious as well, in terms of they’ve suspected it and had some indications. But it’s good to see more data on this to affirm this assessment.

Stuff like this always reminds me of the personalized ads in Mass Effect (like here: https://youtu.be/hMdIypwM2KI ). That game has accurately depicted the future.

Thanks. Can you show me the exit now? I have an appointment.

Good that you say “AI with ChatGPT” as this extremely blurs what the public understands. ChatGPT is an LLM (an autoregressive generative transformer model scaled to billions of parameters). LLMs are part of of AI. But they are not the entire field of AI. AI has so incredibly many more methods, models and algorithms than just LLMs. In fact, LLMs represent just a tiny fraction of the entire field. It’s infuriating how many people confuse those. It’s like saying a specific book is all of the literature that exists.

I feel like humanity is stupid. Over and over again we develop new technologies, make breakthroughs, and instead of calmly evaluating them, making sure they’re safe, we just jump blindly on the bandwagon and adopt it for everything, everywhere. Just like with asbestos, plastics and now LLMs.

Fucking idiots.

Here is a metal version of her really impressive protest. How is this not awesome?

https://youtu.be/JddEXEJ8_S0

Sure, they will. But some sooner than others. Therefore, you can save money by buying the more reliable alternative.

Yes, if you have money to burn, sure. I’ll go with the financially better approach.

I didn’t want to share a recommendation. I saw a post about Seagate and wanted to share my opinion about them.

Do you want a recommendation from me?

Idk, why you’re repeating yourself. If you have the option to choose between two products and you know from experience that one of them is useless earlier than the other, then it would be a waste of money to buy the inferior product as you would have to replace it sooner and therefore loose more money.

Probably. Although such low level interactions can also contribute. Depending on what someone wants to do or needs.

What’s crazy about that?

Haven’t heard of, e.g., Cambridge Analytica?

Sure. But in my experience Seagate drives are significantly worse. So why spend money on a shit company producing shit drives, if I can spend it on products of another company where I get more use and lifetime out of the product?

I don’t have the time right now to addeess all of this, but:
Device interactions can be used to identify users, predict and manipulate their behaviour, contribute to further identification measures etc…

Furthermore my point was that there are many reasons to be cautious about any type of data collection and processing. Saying a specific type would be ridiculous undermines the possible dangers stemming from this. Therefore I wouldn’t plainly discard these concerns.

Even if, in this context, the transmission is not widely noticed, this doesn’t pose a universal guarantee, especially if this can be turned on on demand via backdoors, trojans or whatever. Even worse if the transmission can be hidden. (Less likely for very proficient users with extremely tight network monitoring & control, but that’s rarely the case.)

Ah yes. Seagate. The trash storage device company. If you want to burn your money, just throw it into a fire before buying this e-waste.

Can not recommend.

Of course not, that’s ridiculous.

angry Snowden noises

That’s the difference between North Korea and the western world:

In North Korea the government forces spyware onto your device.

In the western world, people share their data voluntarily and publicly.

Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox and Co. made it possible.

As usual with very much wow inventions from China.

Not to say that they don’t have clever people there doing cool stuff. It’s just my experience that such articles are often overselling something which does not live up to the claims.