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Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

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Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

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Post by lynx97 »

worldsavior wrote: post #29
lynx97 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to some kids (I used to be one of them), the world outside is hostile, unfair and pretty much depressing. I used to basically just have my "keyboard", and it was a wonderful way of escaping the reality and dullness of human interactions as a visually disabled kid. My "keyboard" brought me a job that I love which also pays my bills and made me indepenent. Why would you have wanted to take my keyboard away? To fo…

I'm sorry if I have hurt you in some way, this is not my intention of course. I'm not trying to come across as a bully. In your case I guess the situation is more applicable, but for someone that is not disabled in some way, I would say go and fight those other kids. It's also a bit ironic. The internet is a much more cruel place than real life.

Well, people that judge others from a distance and immediately throw in their opinion basically always come across as bullies. Likely because they are, maybe without noticing.

Ironic? I tend to disagree. While the internet and especially social media have a very bad reputation amongst "boomers" these days, it is still far easier to pick a community you actually feel welcome in then in real life. It is easy to deal with trolls, just close the window and move on... Besides, when I used computers to escape the harsh reality of younger kids, the internet wasn't even a real thing yet, FidoNet was the way to go. We had forums, sure, but communication and posting comments wasn't the primariy use case for a computer. Tinkeering, and learning how the machine actually worked, was the primary time sink. Hacking INT 21H, learning qbasic from reading the manual... All things you would have taken away from me if you had anything to say. And the result would have been an adult without special skills and a ton of job opportunities right away. I guess 10 years or going to university after school, basically loosing 10 years of income, would have been prefered by you as a parent?

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

#34

Post by pram »

behnamoh wrote: post #30

prodigies are amazing, but I often wonder what they end up doing later in life when the intelligence gap between them and their peers converges to zero.

In my teens I was in an IRC community full of various hacker/script kiddie miscreants. Some of these people I would call actual geniuses.

The trajectory of everyone ranged from early Facebook employees, a CMU CS PhD, to one literally going to prison for an exploit lol. You can never tell where life will take you.

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

#35

Post by johnisgood »

asveikau wrote: post #24
rzk wrote: post #2

This is amazing—made even more impressive by the fact that the author is just 15 years old! Also, it's nice to see this mentioned: > For this 10k-word write-up, I spent around a month finishing up the main parts, and refining/editing it took an extra while. Writing this is indeed a painful process. I spent the entire day on the weekend and 4-5 hours during the rest of the week working on it for around two weeks. It's…

I'm also detecting hints of non-native English in his writing which may make it even more effort. Though his Twitter account says he's based in Connecticut. Edit: Wow, shocked that I'm being received so negatively about this, non native English is not "bad". It isn't meant as judgement but praise for what he's accomplished.

He's 15. Many adults whose native language is English can't write it correctly, or what are you referring to if not grammar errors? Can you give me examples?

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

#37

Post by asveikau »

johnisgood wrote: post #35
asveikau wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also detecting hints of non-native English in his writing which may make it even more effort. Though his Twitter account says he's based in Connecticut. Edit: Wow, shocked that I'm being received so negatively about this, non native English is not "bad". It isn't meant as judgement but praise for what he's accomplished.

He's 15. Many adults whose native language is English can't write it correctly, or what are you referring to if not grammar errors? Can you give me examples?

The way grammar works is that it is hard to describe the rules of your native language. I am parsing this as non native. My older kid is a few years younger than this guy, and her text messages to me sound more native than this corpus. No I can't describe it concretely. It's just how I parse word choice and sentence structure.

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

#38

Post by johnisgood »

asveikau wrote: post #37
johnisgood wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's 15. Many adults whose native language is English can't write it correctly, or what are you referring to if not grammar errors? Can you give me examples?

The way grammar works is that it is hard to describe the rules of your native language. I am parsing this as non native. My older kid is a few years younger than this guy, and her text messages to me sound more native than this corpus. No I can't describe it concretely. It's just how I parse word choice and sentence structure.

I read it again. I can see where you are coming from though. I didn't downvote you.

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

#39

Post by asveikau »

johnisgood wrote: post #38
asveikau wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way grammar works is that it is hard to describe the rules of your native language. I am parsing this as non native. My older kid is a few years younger than this guy, and her text messages to me sound more native than this corpus. No I can't describe it concretely. It's just how I parse word choice and sentence structure.

I read it again. I can see where you are coming from though. I didn't downvote you.

Yeah, I removed the first part and made it into an edit of the original comment, since it wasn't directed at you.

Re: Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE

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Post by [deleted] »

asveikau wrote: post #24
rzk wrote: post #2

This is amazing—made even more impressive by the fact that the author is just 15 years old! Also, it's nice to see this mentioned: > For this 10k-word write-up, I spent around a month finishing up the main parts, and refining/editing it took an extra while. Writing this is indeed a painful process. I spent the entire day on the weekend and 4-5 hours during the rest of the week working on it for around two weeks. It's…

I'm also detecting hints of non-native English in his writing which may make it even more effort. Though his Twitter account says he's based in Connecticut. Edit: Wow, shocked that I'm being received so negatively about this, non native English is not "bad". It isn't meant as judgement but praise for what he's accomplished.

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