I agree you probably don't need top-dollar bay-area engineers for this, but hardcore outsourcing to a LCOL probably isnt going to work either due to novelty and generally being setup to do the more rote thing…
This, taken in combination with the SAE paper, the golden-gate claude paper, the feelings / introspection paper, and note in the fable system card (that they are silently nerfing responses about activation shaping), is…
If you know whats going on, could you link to em? Somewhat similar to you, I also got the sense that this was a pointed response/positioning to some controversy. Not because I have any clue whats going on (I dont), but…
Frontier labs have their own variants of MLA and certainly their own balance/scaling-laws for things like MoE vs FC vs Attn. MoE scales really well for inference with horizontal scaling + batching, which these guys luv.…
Yes. A tax on the ultra-wealthy, rather than a measure aimed at increasing housing. Its very roundabout as NYC can only make taxes for NYC, but the net aim is to increase the effective tax rate for the ultra-wealthy,…
Theres no gotchas in the quoted text, but curious if you got the impression from your emails that any of it was.. AI generated? The camber, affirmation, word choice, triplet phrase... leaves me wondering. But without a…
In this case you can say "the contract we reviewed was poisoned via technical means to show different words, depending on how the file was read". Perhaps if pushed you can say you loaded it into GCAI/Harvey/Legora and…
It seems like the main attack scenario for this + legal AI would be during discovery: if opposing counsel gave you a poisoned PDF, and you threw it into one of these products to help you sift through it and got bad…
This is a great writeup! thank you!! Reminds when i did noogler training back in the day and one of the talks described a cascading failure at a datacenter, starting with a cat which was too curious near a power…
They absolutely have backups, I presume they were ineffective or also down for _reasons_.
Worth adding also that you can only use these vectors to corrupt the page cache for files reachable in your mount namespace. Usually with containers, almost nothing is shared with the host namespaces (tho likely shared…
Nah, even insane token costs don't come close to the costs of labor. Most likely this is just 'AI-washing' - dressing a layoff for economic reasons (such as propping up their shrinking margins) as something more…
Between this, the emotions paper, golden gate claude etc, it doesn't seem like such a stretch that Anthropic are doing some kind of activation steering as part of training (and its part of their lead)
Theres been multiple papers discussing how only updating parameters that have high agreement in update direction leads to less overfitting and better generalization. Lemme see if I can find em.…
This attack class lets you escalate from any user to UID 0. Not running as root won't save you, in fact, this attack is for those processes not running as root. However, if you are in a user namespace where UID 0…
> That is, if the batch signal on a parameter exceeds its leave-one-out noise, update it; if not, skip it. This is a one-line change to Adam that accelerates grokking by 5x, suppresses memorization in PINNs, and…
my guess is they want to do AI/O as part of their event loop explicitly, and blocking a thread in a syscall waiting for an IOP (ala std::fs) isn't the vibe.
high surface energy? mahm/father I yearn for the spicy surface
Unless "with experience in the field" == academia, disagree. In particular I remember the early discourse & hype around Wireguard, it was discussed as if perfection was an achieved outcome.
The archive-handling code was in lean-zip, it just seems the verifiers forgot to write proofs for it (still a bug). Thats not the main finding of the article however. The main bug found was actually in the lean runtime,…
Is it fair when it comes to formally-verified software to only consider bugs that violate a proof, and ignore everything else? Formally-verified software is usually advertised "look ma no bugs!" Not "look ma no bugs*"…
Looks like a normal distribution about the chaos mean to me. I appreciate its not everyones cup of tea, but I like this style of writing.
This 'fingerprint' function is super interesting, I imagine this is a signal they use to detect non-claude-code use of claude-code tokens: src/utils/fingerprint.ts#L40-L63
Strong agree on it all being a legal minefield / new grass. > But was almost certainly part of its training data, which complicates things On this point specifically, my read of the Anthropic lawsuit was one of the…
Is your (1) description of clean room implementation, and (2) description of what was done, actually correct? (1): my understanding was that a party _with access to copyrighted material_ made the functional spec, which…
I agree you probably don't need top-dollar bay-area engineers for this, but hardcore outsourcing to a LCOL probably isnt going to work either due to novelty and generally being setup to do the more rote thing…
This, taken in combination with the SAE paper, the golden-gate claude paper, the feelings / introspection paper, and note in the fable system card (that they are silently nerfing responses about activation shaping), is…
If you know whats going on, could you link to em? Somewhat similar to you, I also got the sense that this was a pointed response/positioning to some controversy. Not because I have any clue whats going on (I dont), but…
Frontier labs have their own variants of MLA and certainly their own balance/scaling-laws for things like MoE vs FC vs Attn. MoE scales really well for inference with horizontal scaling + batching, which these guys luv.…
Yes. A tax on the ultra-wealthy, rather than a measure aimed at increasing housing. Its very roundabout as NYC can only make taxes for NYC, but the net aim is to increase the effective tax rate for the ultra-wealthy,…
Theres no gotchas in the quoted text, but curious if you got the impression from your emails that any of it was.. AI generated? The camber, affirmation, word choice, triplet phrase... leaves me wondering. But without a…
In this case you can say "the contract we reviewed was poisoned via technical means to show different words, depending on how the file was read". Perhaps if pushed you can say you loaded it into GCAI/Harvey/Legora and…
It seems like the main attack scenario for this + legal AI would be during discovery: if opposing counsel gave you a poisoned PDF, and you threw it into one of these products to help you sift through it and got bad…
This is a great writeup! thank you!! Reminds when i did noogler training back in the day and one of the talks described a cascading failure at a datacenter, starting with a cat which was too curious near a power…
They absolutely have backups, I presume they were ineffective or also down for _reasons_.
Worth adding also that you can only use these vectors to corrupt the page cache for files reachable in your mount namespace. Usually with containers, almost nothing is shared with the host namespaces (tho likely shared…
Nah, even insane token costs don't come close to the costs of labor. Most likely this is just 'AI-washing' - dressing a layoff for economic reasons (such as propping up their shrinking margins) as something more…
Between this, the emotions paper, golden gate claude etc, it doesn't seem like such a stretch that Anthropic are doing some kind of activation steering as part of training (and its part of their lead)
Theres been multiple papers discussing how only updating parameters that have high agreement in update direction leads to less overfitting and better generalization. Lemme see if I can find em.…
This attack class lets you escalate from any user to UID 0. Not running as root won't save you, in fact, this attack is for those processes not running as root. However, if you are in a user namespace where UID 0…
> That is, if the batch signal on a parameter exceeds its leave-one-out noise, update it; if not, skip it. This is a one-line change to Adam that accelerates grokking by 5x, suppresses memorization in PINNs, and…
my guess is they want to do AI/O as part of their event loop explicitly, and blocking a thread in a syscall waiting for an IOP (ala std::fs) isn't the vibe.
high surface energy? mahm/father I yearn for the spicy surface
Unless "with experience in the field" == academia, disagree. In particular I remember the early discourse & hype around Wireguard, it was discussed as if perfection was an achieved outcome.
The archive-handling code was in lean-zip, it just seems the verifiers forgot to write proofs for it (still a bug). Thats not the main finding of the article however. The main bug found was actually in the lean runtime,…
Is it fair when it comes to formally-verified software to only consider bugs that violate a proof, and ignore everything else? Formally-verified software is usually advertised "look ma no bugs!" Not "look ma no bugs*"…
Looks like a normal distribution about the chaos mean to me. I appreciate its not everyones cup of tea, but I like this style of writing.
This 'fingerprint' function is super interesting, I imagine this is a signal they use to detect non-claude-code use of claude-code tokens: src/utils/fingerprint.ts#L40-L63
Strong agree on it all being a legal minefield / new grass. > But was almost certainly part of its training data, which complicates things On this point specifically, my read of the Anthropic lawsuit was one of the…
Is your (1) description of clean room implementation, and (2) description of what was done, actually correct? (1): my understanding was that a party _with access to copyrighted material_ made the functional spec, which…