MachineMachine /stream - search for post https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[A Virtual Reality Sex Worker Was Denied Entry to the U.S. for ‘Prostitution’]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p5a/a-virtual-reality-sex-worker-was-denied-entry-to-the-us-for-prostitution

Hex makes a living in virtual reality. She’s an online sex worker, hosting shows and posting photos and videos from social VR platform VRChat to her Fansly account, a subscription site for erotic content.

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Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:27:38 -0700 https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34p5a/a-virtual-reality-sex-worker-was-denied-entry-to-the-us-for-prostitution
<![CDATA[[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What they are, where they are headed, comparisons and analogies to present-day operating systems, and some of the security-related challenges of this new computing paradigm. As of November 2023 (this field moves fast!).

Context: This video is based on the slides of a talk I gave recently at the AI Security Summit. The talk was not recorded but a lot of people came to me after and told me they liked it. Seeing as I had already put in one long weekend of work to make the slides, I decided to just tune them a bit, record this round 2 of the talk and upload it here on YouTube. Pardon the random background, that's my hotel room during the thanksgiving break.

Few things I wish I said (I'll add items here as they come up): - The dreams and hallucinations do not get fixed with finetuning. Finetuning just "directs" the dreams into "helpful assistant dreams". Always be careful with what LLMs tell you, especially if they are telling you something from memory alone. That said, similar to a human, if the LLM used browsing or retrieval and the answer made its way into the "working memory" of its context window, you can trust the LLM a bit more to process that information into the final answer. But TLDR right now, do not trust what LLMs say or do. For example, in the tools section, I'd always recommend double-checking the math/code the LLM did. - How does the LLM use a tool like the browser? It emits special words, e.g. |BROWSER|. When the code "above" that is inferencing the LLM detects these words it captures the output that follows, sends it off to a tool, comes back with the result and continues the generation. How does the LLM know to emit these special words? Finetuning datasets teach it how and when to browse, by example. And/or the instructions for tool use can also be automatically placed in the context window (in the “system message”). - You might also enjoy my 2015 blog post "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks". The way we obtain base models today is pretty much identical on a high level, except the RNN is swapped for a Transformer. http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ - What is in the run.c file? A bit more full-featured 1000-line version hre: https://github.com/karpathy/llama2.c/blob/master/run.c

Chapters: Part 1: LLMs 00:00:00 Intro: Large Language Model (LLM) talk 00:00:20 LLM Inference 00:04:17 LLM Training 00:08:58 LLM dreams 00:11:22 How do they work? 00:14:14 Finetuning into an Assistant 00:17:52 Summary so far 00:21:05 Appendix: Comparisons, Labeling docs, RLHF, Synthetic data, Leaderboard Part 2: Future of LLMs 00:25:43 LLM Scaling Laws 00:27:43 Tool Use (Browser, Calculator, Interpreter, DALL-E) 00:33:32 Multimodality (Vision, Audio) 00:35:00 Thinking, System 1/2 00:38:02 Self-improvement, LLM AlphaGo 00:40:45 LLM Customization, GPTs store 00:42:15 LLM OS Part 3: LLM Security 00:45:43 LLM Security Intro 00:46:14 Jailbreaks 00:51:30 Prompt Injection 00:56:23 Data poisoning 00:58:37 LLM Security conclusions End 00:59:23 Outro

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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:27:48 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g
<![CDATA[SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER - COMERCIAL BRASILEIRO (1988) (FANMADE)]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vlUTfXTcBE

E se Super Mario Bros. Wonder fosse um jogo NES de 1988?

Esse foi um projeto muito audacioso, pois além do 3D e do 2D, tive que fazer toda a pixel art do suposto jogo de NES!

Muitos dos gráficos que aparecem no gameplay eu consegui graças ao site https://www.spriters-resource.com

Também fiz a narração (peço desculpas).

No comercial é possível ver um "Wario" de capa correndo do Toad carregando um cogumelo. Esse "Wario" é uma homenagem ao Alexsandro Magalhães dos canais @cedjogos e @AlexsandroMagalhaes

Eu espero que você tenha gostado!

Outra coisa, aproveite e torne-se um “Amigo Apoiador” (membro) do canal para me ajudar a continuar produzindo esses vídeos!


Compartilhe, se inscreva e ative o sino para mais conteúdos como este!

Minhas redes sociais!

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Sat, 30 Sep 2023 08:00:11 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vlUTfXTcBE
<![CDATA[Women Philosophers in the Twitter ‘Manosphere’ (or, that light-hearted Hume Tweet that ended in r*pe threats) - The Philosophers' Cocoon - Create short link | URL shortener]]> https://tdy.lol/ADykc

This is a guest post by Daisy Dixon, Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University Content warning: This post includes discussion of abusive language, misogyny, body-shaming, and rape threats.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:23 -0700 https://tdy.lol/ADykc
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com" rel="external">http://www.washingtonpost.com</a>]]> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/

People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:53:15 -0700 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/
<![CDATA[What is Posthumanporn? by Steven Craig Hickman|HYPER-ANNOTATION|note]]> https://note.com/kenjisiratori/n/n11ecdf9b864f

Decadent art is the flower of late civilizations, the sign of the end lies within its apocalyptic beauty which offers only the most morbid and beautiful enrichments, an excess of sensual cruelty that annihilates self and other in a languid tempest of enervating desires.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:52:32 -0700 https://note.com/kenjisiratori/n/n11ecdf9b864f
<![CDATA[What is Posthumanporn? by Steven Craig Hickman|HYPER-ANNOTATION|note]]> https://note.com/kenjisiratori/n/n11ecdf9b864f

Decadent art is the flower of late civilizations, the sign of the end lies within its apocalyptic beauty which offers only the most morbid and beautiful enrichments, an excess of sensual cruelty that annihilates self and other in a languid tempest of enervating desires.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:52:32 -0700 https://note.com/kenjisiratori/n/n11ecdf9b864f
<![CDATA[Karagarga and the vulnerability of obscure films | National Post]]> https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.

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Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:51:38 -0800 https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films
<![CDATA[Karagarga and the vulnerability of obscure films | National Post]]> https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.

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Sat, 21 Jan 2023 13:51:38 -0800 https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films
<![CDATA[MeFi: A Different Aftermath]]> http://www.metafilter.com/196505/A-Different-Aftermath

I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows.Your favourite and mine Wombat/Kingfisher Ursula Vernon has released a short comic about the post-apocalypse on Twitter, using AI generated art.

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Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:47:35 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/196505/A-Different-Aftermath
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[Molly White is becoming the crypto world's biggest critic - The Washington Post]]> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer who edits Wikipedia pages in her spare time, has become an unlikely thorn in the side of the burgeoning cryptocurrency movement. As the tech and finance world largely embrace crypto tech, she's helping lead a band of skeptics pushing the other direction.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:51:58 -0700 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[Molly White is becoming the crypto world's biggest critic - The Washington Post]]> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer who edits Wikipedia pages in her spare time, has become an unlikely thorn in the side of the burgeoning cryptocurrency movement. As the tech and finance world largely embrace crypto tech, she's helping lead a band of skeptics pushing the other direction.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:51:58 -0700 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/
<![CDATA[The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/01/slow-internet-email/621232/

Every day, the mail still comes. My postal carrier drives her proud van onto the street and then climbs each stoop by foot. The service remains essential, but not as a communications channel. I receive ads and bills, mostly, and the occasional newspaper clipping from my mom.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:35 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/01/slow-internet-email/621232/
<![CDATA[Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/09/are-we-witnessing-the-dawn-of-post-theory-science

Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a fundamental relationship between force, mass and acceleration.

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Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:51:24 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/09/are-we-witnessing-the-dawn-of-post-theory-science
<![CDATA[WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK]]> https://machinemachine.net/portfolio/why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk/

A text written for IOCOSE‘s exhibition “All of Your Base” held at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana, 1 December 2021–14 January 2022.

Published as a PostScriptUM PDF and print-on-demand publication.

► WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK ► eBROCHURE (PDF)► PRINT ON DEMAND [coming soon]► LIST ON ISSUU

In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal economics, counterculture and utopianism. “Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk” plays with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years. Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to working with the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) language model to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have colonized Mars. The fictional universe thus created by human and non-human imagination builds a literary counterpart to IOCOSE’s latest works – the video animations Pointing at a New Planet (2020) and Free from History (2021) – presented on the occasion of the “All of Your Base” exhibition at Aksioma | Project Space in Ljubljana.

Download PDF (eBROCHURE) View on Aksioma website

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Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:06:04 -0800 https://machinemachine.net/portfolio/why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk/
<![CDATA[Writing fiction as scholarly work | Impact of Social Sciences]]> https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/12/11/writing-fiction-as-scholarly-work/

Writing for academic publication is highly stylised and formalised. In this post Rob Kitchin describes how writing fiction has shaped his own academic praxis and can provide scholars with an expanded range of conceptual tools for communicating their research.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:55:29 -0700 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/12/11/writing-fiction-as-scholarly-work/
<![CDATA[Postmodernism is when you post about modernism]]> https://twitter.com/Andilaama/statuses/1393476394357858304 ]]> Sat, 15 May 2021 01:00:36 -0700 https://twitter.com/Andilaama/statuses/1393476394357858304 <![CDATA[Smac McCreanor - HydraulicPress dance Series compilation]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqB6UxERAk

Thought I’d put a compilation together of this stupid lil series I started a few months ago cause collectively these vids have accumulated over 150million views which is kinda fun! and that’s excluding the reposts from random accounts and platforms. This is a long and repetitive video, I fell asleep 3 times while editing it together just now. Anyway, let me know which squish is your fav

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Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:50:21 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqB6UxERAk