A friend of mine got me on Gentoo in 2004. He spent all of his time tweaking compiler flags like -O3 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops and running into so many issues in the process. I think he only lasted…
I doubt this oft-repeated stereotype was every particularly accurate. I'm not aware of any current Gentoo users on the distro specifically for performance reasons. Gentoo users are in it for control over their system…
The “convex hull of ideas” is a very interesting framing. My own suspicion/guess is that AI can break out of the bounds of the convex hull in math, and that’s going to become apparent soon.
At least 1/3rd of these predictions aren't clear enough to determine exactly what is being claimed/predicted. Even after reading the full comment multiple times, on a lot of them I couldn't tell where the author had set…
I’m doing all my CPU measurements with ‘perf stat’ on Linux.
Entirely in C. Compilers are pretty good these days. Almost every time I try to outsmart them I make things worse.
It’s a backtracking search program looking for integer solutions to a specific problem. I’ve tuned a series of bloom filters to fill my L2 cache so that I rarely have to touch main memory (this alone took my IPC from…
I was recently able to get a workload of mine optimized enough on Zen 5 to hit a sustained 6.0 IPC/core (3.0 / thread) at 5.1 GHz. Seeing the a > 99.8% branch prediction rate and a > 99.99% L2 cache hit rate retiring >…
For a long time (probably 2002-2010) I really wanted to do LFS. But I've been on Gentoo since 2004 which, over the last ~22 years, has probably exposed me to almost everything LFS would have, plus a lot more it wouldn't…
This is why the checking doors / neighborhood analogy isn't a good one. Having one person with poor computer security negatively impacts everyone. Hacked sites turn into phishing landing pages, exploit kit hosting,…
If the neighborhood was constantly being canvased by criminals checking doorknobs, so your concerned neighbor went over to your house to check your doorknob, and then let you know if you accidentally left it open, would…
Calling vuln scanning from a non-profit a felony is a bit of a stretch. Many for-profit companies do similar vuln scanning and then threaten companies with security "scorecards" that is borderline extortion.
I just checked my own webserver logs (I also run a sever in the ntp pool) and I too see some hits in my webserver logs. They look to all be log4j vuln scanning activity (CVE-2021-44228), and the volume isn't that high…
If someone wants to beat me to either a solution, or proving no solutions exists, then by all means :-) I think it's an extraordinarily hard problem computationally, even with exceptional theoretical backing. Where…
Well I’m first exhausting some promising regions of the search space which should complete in less than 2 weeks. After that I strongly suspect a solution doesn’t exist (for the column grouped space I’m searching). If it…
A set of permutation fair dice work for any subset of dice and players. So a 4-dice perm-fair set allows any three dice to be used and is guaranteed to be perm-fair for 3 as well. The “Go First” name is catchy for…
The big open question is whether a set of 5 (permutation fair) 30-sided dice exists. I’ve been working on that on and off since 2012. I picked it up again about a month ago and have made dramatic speed improvements to…
> GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training Do we know if they’ve finally completed another pre-training run, or is this building off the same pre-training base they’ve been using…
At first I was going to say this is just the tetrahedra trick dressed up in slightly different clothes, and some sense it is, but there is a nice cancellation in the y and z coordinates which leads to less calculation…
I saw some news last week saying the project had reached 100%. Looking at the git repo (https://gitlab.com/kholdfuzion/goldeneye_src) that claim is a bit harder to verify, but maybe look again?
Okay this result may well be in his expertise wheelhouse but what about the recent smooth Carathéodory conjecture disproof? Or the Jacobian, or the Hadamard matrices? It seems to span a pretty wide range. I know others…
I just don't understand how Alpöge can get Claude to construct so many complex mathematical objects. He must already have some deep insight into the structure these things are likely to take. Naive prompting, or naive…
Has FHE really progressed so far that it's now so efficient that doing computation on an encrypted prompt is feasible? I thought even basic operations like FHE addition were still thousands of times more complex. The…
> In which parallel universe? "As far as my technological life goes"
I'm one of the BSidesSF CTF organizers and challenge authors (symmetric). The article is a few months old now (May) which is ancient history as far as AI advancements go. That said, I'm still emotionally coming to terms…
A friend of mine got me on Gentoo in 2004. He spent all of his time tweaking compiler flags like -O3 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops and running into so many issues in the process. I think he only lasted…
I doubt this oft-repeated stereotype was every particularly accurate. I'm not aware of any current Gentoo users on the distro specifically for performance reasons. Gentoo users are in it for control over their system…
The “convex hull of ideas” is a very interesting framing. My own suspicion/guess is that AI can break out of the bounds of the convex hull in math, and that’s going to become apparent soon.
At least 1/3rd of these predictions aren't clear enough to determine exactly what is being claimed/predicted. Even after reading the full comment multiple times, on a lot of them I couldn't tell where the author had set…
I’m doing all my CPU measurements with ‘perf stat’ on Linux.
Entirely in C. Compilers are pretty good these days. Almost every time I try to outsmart them I make things worse.
It’s a backtracking search program looking for integer solutions to a specific problem. I’ve tuned a series of bloom filters to fill my L2 cache so that I rarely have to touch main memory (this alone took my IPC from…
I was recently able to get a workload of mine optimized enough on Zen 5 to hit a sustained 6.0 IPC/core (3.0 / thread) at 5.1 GHz. Seeing the a > 99.8% branch prediction rate and a > 99.99% L2 cache hit rate retiring >…
For a long time (probably 2002-2010) I really wanted to do LFS. But I've been on Gentoo since 2004 which, over the last ~22 years, has probably exposed me to almost everything LFS would have, plus a lot more it wouldn't…
This is why the checking doors / neighborhood analogy isn't a good one. Having one person with poor computer security negatively impacts everyone. Hacked sites turn into phishing landing pages, exploit kit hosting,…
If the neighborhood was constantly being canvased by criminals checking doorknobs, so your concerned neighbor went over to your house to check your doorknob, and then let you know if you accidentally left it open, would…
Calling vuln scanning from a non-profit a felony is a bit of a stretch. Many for-profit companies do similar vuln scanning and then threaten companies with security "scorecards" that is borderline extortion.
I just checked my own webserver logs (I also run a sever in the ntp pool) and I too see some hits in my webserver logs. They look to all be log4j vuln scanning activity (CVE-2021-44228), and the volume isn't that high…
If someone wants to beat me to either a solution, or proving no solutions exists, then by all means :-) I think it's an extraordinarily hard problem computationally, even with exceptional theoretical backing. Where…
Well I’m first exhausting some promising regions of the search space which should complete in less than 2 weeks. After that I strongly suspect a solution doesn’t exist (for the column grouped space I’m searching). If it…
A set of permutation fair dice work for any subset of dice and players. So a 4-dice perm-fair set allows any three dice to be used and is guaranteed to be perm-fair for 3 as well. The “Go First” name is catchy for…
The big open question is whether a set of 5 (permutation fair) 30-sided dice exists. I’ve been working on that on and off since 2012. I picked it up again about a month ago and have made dramatic speed improvements to…
> GPT‑6 Astra brings together years of research and big bets across pre-training Do we know if they’ve finally completed another pre-training run, or is this building off the same pre-training base they’ve been using…
At first I was going to say this is just the tetrahedra trick dressed up in slightly different clothes, and some sense it is, but there is a nice cancellation in the y and z coordinates which leads to less calculation…
I saw some news last week saying the project had reached 100%. Looking at the git repo (https://gitlab.com/kholdfuzion/goldeneye_src) that claim is a bit harder to verify, but maybe look again?
Okay this result may well be in his expertise wheelhouse but what about the recent smooth Carathéodory conjecture disproof? Or the Jacobian, or the Hadamard matrices? It seems to span a pretty wide range. I know others…
I just don't understand how Alpöge can get Claude to construct so many complex mathematical objects. He must already have some deep insight into the structure these things are likely to take. Naive prompting, or naive…
Has FHE really progressed so far that it's now so efficient that doing computation on an encrypted prompt is feasible? I thought even basic operations like FHE addition were still thousands of times more complex. The…
> In which parallel universe? "As far as my technological life goes"
I'm one of the BSidesSF CTF organizers and challenge authors (symmetric). The article is a few months old now (May) which is ancient history as far as AI advancements go. That said, I'm still emotionally coming to terms…