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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
IT-Angriff betrifft IT der Beweisstückstelle der Polizei
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"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

{ "jason": "clark" } (@jasonclark.bsky.social)
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHCuyuPd9KK3QUo8izeta2CMIk-rmcy1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103883366387427181221&rtpof=true&sd=true Code: https://github.com/jasonclark/agentic-search-react

So, I have an answer to my previous question about GPU transfer efficiency.
Original code: write data to staging buffer on CPU, vkCopyBuffer to GPU local memory, run int-float32 conversion on GPU out of that buffer. The copy operation shows 50% SM occupancy by compute warps, 50% unallocated warp slots in active SMs.
GPU memory write bandwidth is sitting around 2%, about 1.9 ms copy/shader run time.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Confidence Man:
🎵 Angry Girl
#ConfidenceMan
https://confidenceman.bandcamp.com/track/angry-girl-chai-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PXULQ9Lo1AmU7eMnnBnxp

So the #MacOS convention is to only sometimes use ~/Library/Application and sometimes ~/config
Yes perfectly normal to have 2 competing standards for configuration files
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Voice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.

I plan to bow out of NYT #Wordle after tomorrow. I’ll miss the friendly competition with the #OldGal & #YoungPups. Their announcement that they’ll start reusing previous answers as of Monday Feb, 2 was enough t…

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

Never thought I'd see the day when an #LLM in the current crop chooses #honesty over #fabrication. I guess, in this case at least, I beat #Copilot into submission (with an earlier criticism). But pretty sure it'll soon be back to confidently fabricating answers.
#hallucination #ethics #technology