Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China
HONG KONG — Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most prominent literary awards in science fiction, excluded multiple authors from shortlists last year over concerns their work or public comments could be offensive to China, leaked emails show. Questions had been raised as to why writers including Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang, Xiran Jay […]
Berkeley’s Upzoning Would Be Among Nation’s Largest
A proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley’s neighborhoods. Map of all R-1, R-2, R-2A zones in Berkeley. Light-green indicates the zones are within the “hillside overlay”: R-1H and R-2H. All green colored parcels will be re-zoned under Planning Commission’s latest proposal. Grey zones will be unaffected. The city […]
Basic proxy implementation using io_uring by Jens Axboe
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Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf]
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Representation Engineering: Mistral-7B on Acid
Posted January 22, 2024 In October 2023, a group of authors from the Center for AI Safety, among others, published Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency. That paper looks at a few methods of doing what they call “Representation Engineering”: calculating a “control vector” that can be read from or added to model […]
Altman’s Ambition
Sam Altman is not playing around. He wants to build new chip factories in the decidedly unsafe and unfriendly UAE. He wants to build up the world’s supply of energy so we can run those chips. What does he say these projects will cost? Oh, up to seven trillion dollars. Not a typo. Even scaling […]
My Notes on Gitlab’s Postgres Schema Design (2022)
I spent some time going over the Postgres schema of Gitlab. GitLab is an alternative to Github. You can self host GitLab since it is an open source DevOps platform. My motivation to understand the schema of a big project like Gitlab was to compare it against schemas I am designing and learn some best […]
JSR first impressions: a JavaScript package manager by the Deno team
JSR is a new package repository being introduced by the team at Deno that aims to solve many problems in the Javascript eco-system. I was invited to take part in very early access to it and want to share my impressions. A bit of history I was a very early contributor to Deno which eventually […]
OS-Copilot Friday
The design principle of FRIDAY aims to maximize generality by equipping the agent with the ability for self-refinement and self-directed learning. We first use an example to illustrate how FRIDAY operates and emphasize its capacity for self-refinement. Subsequently, we delve into how FRIDAY acquires the proficiency to control unfamiliar applications through self-directed learning. In the […]
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
In May 2023, Eric Hartford, a machine learning engineer authored a popular blog post “Uncensored Models” providing his viewpoints to the merits of uncensored models, and how they are created. It’s a great read! This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model vs its censored model. Some of the uncensored models […]