Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) on X (original) (raw)

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  Incredible to have helped build the first AI system to reach #1 in the US on
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  ! We found a LOT of great bugs :D
  
  For the first time in history, the #1 hacker in the US is an AI. (1/8)
  
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  ML researchers working on scaling laws:
  
  
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  My love language is painstakingly removing the tracking cruft attached to URLs before passing them on
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  Async programming is so cool. With just a few minutes of work you can have a program that hangs forever and is impossible to debug
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  OpenAI: pip install openai and set OPENAI_API_KEY Anthropic: yea same but s/openai/anthropic/g Google: oh boy. ok so you have a GCP account? no? ok go set that up. and a payment method. now make a "project". SURVEY POPUP! k now gcloud auth. wait you have the gcloud CLI right–
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  You shouldn't store currency in floats, but that's just my $0.02000000000000000042
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  It took a while, but we finally developed the technology to remove both students and professors from the university system, leaving only the part that's really important: administration.
  
  Look, if everyone is worried about students cheating on essays for AI, instructors can just cheat right back. I asked OpenAI to give me an essay question & make a rubric for grading. I had GPT-3 actually write the essay. I then had the OpenAI grade the essay & give comments. ✅
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  Grok's automated news feature is batting 1000 today
  
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  ...ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now??
  
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  ChatGPT exploits a buffer overflow 😳
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  My objection to Rust, OCaml, Haskell, etc. is that I am a bad programmer who wants to write bad programs. Python is naturally suited to this task
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  Wouldn’t have believed this was real if I hadn’t taken the screenshot myself
  
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  Proposal: PhD-level course in "how to get stuff to build and run". The final exam assigns you a random GitHub repo for a paper from no less than five years ago and asks you to get it running within 24 hours

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