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Data scientist with focus on NLP and Trust, Safety, and Risk.
Guessing if you’re a Palo shop you should probably prepare for some rough months ahead now that panos, globalprotect, et al, are on the radar of every security researcher and their dog

When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

1. The US government can crack it *OR* the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
2. The government of Israel can crack it
3. My friend Kristin could crack it
4. The government of Russia can crack it
5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
7. I could crack it

New York Times articles be like:

All Experts Say Water Is Wet, But Is It? Three Unstable People That Want You To Join Their MLM Religion Disagree.

Anyway, enough about that sports gambling scandal, we have to hear from our sponsor: sports gambling

a critical skill in the age of #AI is knowing if you’re in a critical situation that demands accuracy or the other kind, where you just need a guess to point you in the right direction. You’ll always have huge negative impacts (e.g. quality) from AI if you don’t know when their usage is appropriate.

i like this phrasing, “a drunk guy at a bar”. He could be right, but maybe not. How much are you risking by trusting him?

https://attractive.space/@Setok/112123708506055669 via @Setok

Kristoffer Lawson (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] one should trust #AI #LLM facts just as much as you’d trust a drunk guy in a bar. For the same reasons. It may raise some interesting tidbit, but you absolutely have to check it if you plan to use it for anything. I actually think the use of LLMs for knowledge sources is a misguided use of the tech.

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Dan Kaminsky was someone who boosted me early and reached out to me privately and encouraged me. I come across his messages all the time. Not having him is an incredible loss to our community. I remember him. You are not dead until the last person whispers your name.
I'm watching the Godfather and just realized that Tom Hagen is the Corleone Family's mentat. More proof: Tom Hagen = TF = Thufir Hawat.

From a related conversation

Dear $god_of_small_negotiations,
Is it possible to get the research engineers to start putting their data requests in the [ticket-tracker] rather than chat-bombing my junior peers who don't feel empowered to say no

If you grant this request, I will burn an offering on every oncall shift change

Overheard: "[screwball seat-of-pants deployment process 'designed' by researchers and PMs] is like the Vogon poetry of continuous integration"
If you want a LLM that’s accurate, vetted, hallucination free, and verifiable, what you actually want is an encyclopedia