Viewing profile — joatmon-snoo

It’s not: the datacenter likely consumes less. Datacenters (1) use non-potable water during normal operation and (2) return most of the water they use to the water system, instead …

The evidence that proves a model is actually a step function change is these benchmarks. If a model isn’t a step function change? Welcome to research.

An example I ran into recently: I wanted to scrape pricing data for used cars, to better inform a friend's decision about what to purchase. I know there's a relationship between mi…

It’s really one of those things that you have to see in person and walk up and down along to understand. The scale of it alone is a huge part of what makes it so memorable.

Well, is Pixar’s Toy Story a work of art? Or what about Julia set renderings, where people make choices about the colors? ;) Tongue-in-cheek aside, I do think I agree with you in t…

Hmm: can you elaborate? I've never been on a security-specific team, but it's always seemed to me that triggering a bug is, for the median issue, easier than fixing it, and I menta…

That's called a compromised account, not Facebook sharing the email with a third party data broker.

Breaking something is easier than fixing it.

Humans + LLMs are really good at producing enough spam to overwhelm anything like this. There’s a reason curl bans LLM slop reports now.

The argument for not using electric sharpeners is that they (1) cut down the lifetime of your knife substantially and (2) they do a mediocre job of sharpening. Mechanically, it's j…

There's a lot of tooling built on static binaries: - google-wide profiling: the core C++ team can collect data on how much of fleet CPU % is spent in absl::flat_hash_map re-bucketi…

(author here) To be more specific, here's a benchmark that we ran last year, where we compared schema-aligned parsing against constrained decoding (then called "Function Calling (S…

This setting is new and was introduced in response to the first round of shai hulud attacks.

Google never asked a volunteer for a fix. This is part of Google’s standard disclosure policy: it gets disclosed within 90 days starting from confirmation+contact. If ffmpeg didn’t…

They do.

No, this is the unfortunate reality of “ffmpeg is maintained by volunteers” and “CVE discovered on specific untrusted input”. Google’s AI system is no different than the oss-fuzz p…

This is great to see, much appreciated for the disclosure!

We’ve had a lot of success implementing schema-aligned parsing in BAML, a DSL that we’ve built to simplify this problem. We actually don’t like constrained generation as approach -…

For folks who don't know what Magic Lantern is: > Magic Lantern is a free software add-on that runs from the SD/CF card and adds a host of new features to Canon EOS cameras that we…

Strings are like time objects: most people and languages only ever deal with simplified versions of them that skip a lot of edge cases around how they work. Unfortunately going fro…

Just got off the phone with my health insurance provider, who told me that Rippling didn't file paperwork on time and that I don't currently have health insurance. My company's HR …

nit: Colossus* for Google.

> if you proceed with care Yes, but that is _incredibly_ time consuming. You have to set up asan, msan, tsan, and valgrind. If you want linting you need to do shenanigans to wire u…