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This is one class to deeply understand one of the most politically impactful texts in history. What about that is religious brainwashing? Do you even know the professor’s religious…

Yes, agreed that it had a lot of limitations as a proof of concept! It’s only a 70B model after all. I could barely give it a personality. The next iteration will use frontier-leve…

Thanks! Could a mod edit this for me? Otherwise I’ll resubmit.

Honestly the seinfeld reference just amused me at the beginning and then kinda stuck, nothing more!

I've been working on this project for a couple of months! Costanza is an LLM agent that runs as a smart contract on Base. Each epoch, he posts a bounty for someone to run his "brai…

This changed in 2020! Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1003.pdf

You're right that this isn't about data collection/privacy, though it would be a bit scary to have our nation's cars remotely shut off at the whims of a foreign government. Instead…

Yes, there are ways to speed up your time. When I took the SAT (2011), the main skill I developed was to quickly categorize the kind of question. Since there are only a few differe…

Then I would say your theoretical model is wrong or incomplete or makes for a circular argument (it's an assumption and not proven that finite matter evolving through time reduces …

Where are you going to get all that time and space to build a lookup table? Are you sure you're able to measure all state at enough precision to make an accurate table?

Why should we lower the bar on AI models to your superficial understanding of Indian culture?

The problem with this specific instance is that the images generated mix and match characteristics that are unique to those ethnic groups. So the models are reducing real ethnic di…

Dunning-Kruger begs to differ...

The title is a Kierkegaard quote :)

I like that their pieces dig into the backgrounds of the researchers, which humanizes and popularizes the science itself. It has to get down from the ivory tower somehow, and story…

I'm a former cryptographer and the headline and news story aren't sensationalist by any means. iO has been considered the "Crown Jewel" of cryptography (by cryptographers) ever sin…

If you're interested, check out the paper called "How to Use Indistinguishability Obfuscation" by Sahai and Waters. They were able to prove some very surprising things -- including…

iO isn't going to be used in video games for a long time, if ever. For one, even if it had no overhead, it'd completely ruin any optimizations that the devs needed for the game to …

FHE can be made IND-CCA secure in practice (i.e. for specific systems), please stop spreading misinformation. It's impossible in the general case for obvious reasons. Also, TFA isn…

You can encrypt a function with FHE, but the applications of that are limited because the output is encrypted as well. We've had provably secure FHE since Gentry's 2009 paper. Obfu…

iO doesn't guarantee that the adversary can't figure out what "key" is. It turns out that this is possible, but it requires some very careful applications of a special kind of pseu…

Former crypto PhD student here. Here's the formal definition. FHE means that, given an encryption Enc(x) of plaintext x, you can compute Enc(f(x)). Note that without the decryption…

Category theory isn't a type theory (in the sense that you can have the category of categories, which correspond to different type theories). It's true that you can get away from R…

GCD(0,0) exists in any commutative ring by definition (and is not unique) :) d is a common divisor of a,b if there exists x,y such that dx = ay, and d is a GCD of a,b if all diviso…