This is an interesting dive into comparing compressing images in a lossy way with what ChatGPT does to the text. Basically, ChatGPT is like internet compressed into one program. And it explains its strengths and weaknesses. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
After being off social media (outside of LinkedIn which I don’t count as I use it as a CV) for more than two years I have given Mastodon a try. At first it is bit confusing how “fediverse” works, but… Read More »My (short) experience with Mastodon
This is a great insight story on Mastodon about a huge screwup everybody was aware will happen, but nobody did anything to prevent it. Read the whole thread. Reading it, a lot of situations came in mind I have experienced,… Read More »Must Read: “In roughly two hours, 1647 devices are about to be locked out of access to organisation resources, wiped, and removed from Intune permanently”
Facebook reportedly now has 2 billion users. Which is a figure nobody outside (and probably also inside) Facebook can verify, as it is hard to count which account is real, which is a duplicate/bot and which is active (and what… Read More »Why Facebook is screwed (despite having 2 billion users)
I have given up on Google (maybe there will be a future post on that) which is one of the main (but not only) reason, why I am using Firefox on desktop and mobile for some time. First, why I… Read More »My Browser Setup for 2023 (Firefox + Add-ons)
Tech The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army He was right. As the newspapers soon reported, more than sixteen million dollars was withdrawn from roughly seventeen hundred 7-Eleven A.T.M.s across Japan that morning, using data stolen from South Africa’s… Read More »ProLinks #65 – North Korea, Cryptocurrencies, Propaganda and more
Tech Ubuntu 21.04 is here Ubuntu machines can join an Active Directory (AD) domain at installation for central configuration. AD administrators can now manage Ubuntu workstations, which simplifies compliance with company policies. Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy The… Read More »ProLinks #64 – Cookies, How to Survive Apocalypse, Fall of Rome and more
Tech Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation Any fundamental discovery involves a significant degree of risk. If an idea is guaranteed to work then it moves from the realm of research to engineering. Unfortunately, this also means that most research careers… Read More »ProLinks #63 – Machine Learning, Hyperinflation, Red Bull and more
Tech Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted? The fundamental idea in MDL is to view learning as data compression. By compressing the data, we need to discover regularity or patterns in the data with the high potentiality to generalize to… Read More »ProLinks #62 – AI, Statistics, Tarkovsky and more
Tech What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? Clearview has now raised $17 million and, according to PitchBook, is valued at nearly $109 million. As of January 2020, it had been used by at least 600 law-enforcement… Read More »ProLinks #61 – Brains, data, hackers and more