The almost perfect mini NAS for my mini rack The (almost) perfect mini NAS for my mini rack The GMKtec G9 N150 4-bay NVMe mini PC is $240 and the nearly perfect NAS for my mini rack: It has an Intel N150 4-core SoC with halfway-decent Intel UHD integrated
Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting About three years ago I saw a quite curious and interesting post on Hacker News. A student, Christopher Tarry, was able to use cosine similarity against a vector of top words frequencies in comments, in order to detect similar HN accounts — and, sometimes, even accounts actually controlled by the
I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636 Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise. No one on earth—certainly no one who reads this blog—could call me blasé about the issue of antisemitism at US universities. I’ve blasted the
Its easier than ever to de-censor videos It’s easier than ever to de-censor videos Last month I asked people to hack part of my YouTube video, specifically to de-pixelate the contents of a folder I had pixelated starting at the 4:57 mark. Your
GPT-41 Three new million token input models from OpenAI including their cheapest model yet
My most rage-inducing beliefs A friend and I were discussing whether there’s anything I could possibly say, on this blog, in 2025, that wouldn’t provoke an outraged reaction from my commenters. So I started jotting down ideas. Let’s see how I did.
Cross-entropy and KL divergence
CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks
Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment and More In this terrifying time for the world, I’m delighted to announce a little glimmer of good news. I’m receiving a large grant from the wonderful Open Philanthropy, to build up a group of students and postdocs over the next few years, here at UT Austin, to do research in theoretical
Raspberry Pi cluster spotted inside 6k audio processor Raspberry Pi cluster spotted inside $6k audio processor People often ask me whether Pi clusters are useful besides just tinkering. I’ve built my fair share, including my most recent ‘Lamp Rack’ Kubernetes-in-a-Lamp cluster. Well… I have a definitive answer: the