Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets
Swiss humor. Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even “German humor” produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden […]
Promoted.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring – Flink Expert
Promoted optimizes top online marketplaces. For example, on Airbnb, we would sort search and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue. We are building a first-party-everywhere ad network. We are all ex-Facebook and Google ads engineers, and we have built this before together.
Solving Prompt Injection via Backtranslation
Abstract:Although many large language models (LLMs) have been trained to refuse harmful requests, they are still vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, which rewrite the original prompt to conceal its harmful intent. In this paper, we propose a new method for defending LLMs against jailbreaking attacks by “backtranslation”. Specifically, given an initial response generated by the target […]
One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot
One of the world’s smallest fish, measuring about the width of an adult human fingernail, can make a sound as loud as a gunshot, scientists have said. The male Danionella cerebrum, a fish of about 12mm found in the streams of Myanmar, produces sounds that exceed 140 decibels, according to the study published in the […]
Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to chemicals (2022)
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Rainwater everywhere on the planet is unsafe to drink due to levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS that exceed the latest guidelines, according to a new study by Stockholm University scientists. Commonly known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they disintegrate extremely slowly, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) were initially found in […]
Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox
Bad search results for the query “Annie Lennox first band” were among the reasons Apple rejected an approach from Microsoft to use the Bing search engine as the default in its Safari browser – and also discarded the idea of a joint venture to make Bing better or even the chance to buy the search […]
Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory – AnandTech
Micron Technology on Monday said that it had initiated volume production of its HBM3E memory. The company’s HBM3E known good stack dies (KGSDs) will be used for Nvidia’s H200 compute GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, which will ship in the second quarter of 2024. Micron has announced it is mass-producing 24 GB 8-Hi HBM3E devices with […]
I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-category company to use my open-source libraries […]
Why time seems to pass faster as we age
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative conclusion is that […]
React Labs: What We’ve Been Working On – February 2024 – React Compiler
February 15, 2024 by Joseph Savona, Ricky Hanlon, Andrew Clark, Matt Carroll, and Dan Abramov. In React Labs posts, we write about projects in active research and development. We’ve made significant progress since our last update, and we’d like to share our progress. Note React Conf 2024 is scheduled for May 15–16 in Henderson, Nevada! […]