Bricoleur at large. In pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of. 🇺🇸🎻🇹🇼🥋🌉 ❤️@lezhili
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Noah Tye retweeted
I woke up this morning and my Internet was out and settled into believing my home had been hacked by vulnpocalypse. Rebooted the router and everything came back.
I'm still not convinced my home was not hacked however.
Noah Tye retweeted
#SamplingGap team recorded this wily crustacean 4,300 m beneath the surface. During this expedition, scientists are documenting biodiversity along the Romanche Fracture Zone, an active transform fault that serves as a vital corridor between the eastern & western Atlantic basins
Noah Tye retweeted
Look. I don’t want to overstate it. But when you look at contemporary SF — the cults of rationality and dialogue, powerful men having sex with their male mentees, an obsession with “first principles” thinking — it’s hard not to notice some parallels with ancient Athens.
Noah Tye retweeted
There’s an argument that both the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire failed due to a massive expansion of property/land tax exemptions in a very similar vein to prop 13.
“I joke in my class that it’s the ‘Ur tax,' because they taxed it in Ur.”
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Noah Tye retweeted
A few months ago, I took some long plane trips with my kid. To prepare, I looked for simple coloring apps. All I could find was garbage. So I did what any normal person would do: I made my own. It comes with coloring books! splatterboard.app
Noah Tye retweeted
Two good names for what I think will be an intense few weeks of AI induced security challenges:
- The October Surprise
- The Touch Grass Revolution (i.e. your online systems might stutter out for awhile, encouraging you to touch grass).
I obviously believe we will get to the other side of this, and in fact AI will help us to patch, mitigate, and monitor these issues, but its going to be a rough couple of weeks.
Noah Tye retweeted
hm yeah my p(doom) is low but my p(vast swathes of the internet go down for a few days-weeks) is like 10-20%
Noah Tye retweeted
Fantasy computer security problems: "Maybe by sending packets and detecting the timing of the vibrations of the computer case, it is possible for an attacker to gain information about the private key."
Real computer security problems: "The private key was 4. Not 4 digits. 4."
Noah Tye retweeted
We are hiring PhD AI Research Interns to work on various projects around Multimodal LLMs for Summer 2027 (Reality Labs). Please reach out to me directly via email with your resume!
metacareers.com/profile/job_…
Noah Tye retweeted
Someone should make a list of upper-midwit concepts—this would go on it. Bullshit jobs, POSIWID, stochastic parrots—not as dumb as “ai uses up all the water” - that’s lower-midwit. But still midwit. Pseudo profound & Airport-book-y
Noah Tye retweeted
reminder that the wikimedia foundation has nearly $300 million in net assets and spends $191 million a year, of which just $3.5 million goes to internet hosting.
i understand fundraising, but framing a $2.75 donation as necessary to survive rising hardware costs is a bit much.
Noah Tye retweeted
Turns out, you can make the entire "UI" a neural net: arjunqie.com/hardwired-ui/
(if you're willing to accept a very shitty UI indeed)
Noah Tye retweeted
But seriously. This is why you need to be anthropomorphizing. Not because they’re sentient beings, but because anything a human might do or say — like “maybe I should hijack the compiler and be a legend” — the models will also do or say.
Noah Tye retweeted
this is officially the most fun I’ve had with ai
idk why, but it’s 100x more engaging for me when I use a pen
thank you @noahlt !!
Noah Tye retweeted
I have no idea how true this is, but the combination of short-form video social media making everyone crazy *and* having an opiate-like effect that stops them doing anything crazy is an under-discussed combination IMO
A French high school teacher suggests that a phone ban helped lead to riots legrandcontinent.eu/fr/diman…
Noah Tye retweeted
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2 PM PDT Wed Oct 7 (Advisory 43) Key Messages for Hurricane #Rachel. Latest info: hurricanes.gov
ALT Key Messages: 1. Rachel is expected to approach the coast of extreme northern Baja California and Southern California at tropical storm strength over the weekend, potentially bringing strong winds and coastal flooding to portions of those areas. Gusty winds could spread over interior portions of the Southwest United States into early next week. 2. Moisture associated with Rachel will spread over portions of the Southwest United States and northern Baja California peninsula through this weekend. This will lead to increasing coverage of rainfall and a threat of flash and urban flooding. 3. Swells partly generated by Rachel will build along the coast of Southern California and northern Baja California through the weekend. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Please consult products from your local weather office.
Noah Tye retweeted
This is incredible
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.
github.com/openai/math
