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ƒ’(tech), private equity, global macro, origination, statecraft. Greek, Mediterranean.

London, UK
Joined June 2008
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That was a fun one!
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Chill Sunday
Hard to overstate how big of a deal this is. tl;dr — ANY unpatched Linux server with even a single TCP port exposed to the internet (say for HTTP or SSH) and MPTCP active (default for many Go web servers) is vulnerable to complete takeover.
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Great line from the CTO of Proton. I’m paraphrasing and stealing it : Your job is not to use agents to help you write code. Your job is to lead the agents to help them write code.
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Will P/NP be the last to fall?
An internal model at OpenAI has produced a claimed refutation of ETH! Russell Impagliazzo, Mohan Paturi, and I have been asked to help organize an open and independent examination of this claim. 1/4
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ANTHROPIC FILES FOR IPO
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Just do
there is no moat
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Peter O'Toole drinking tea with Bedouins during filming David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" in Jordan, 1962.
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Cache rules everything around me
‘In one experiment, we asked agents in separate VMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache’
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My Claude found a critical zero day vulnerability in the Code of Hammurabi, unnoticed by developers for 3,779 years.
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There is an (unpatchable?) supply-chain zero-day in PyTorch autograd that allows a regularization term to use the model's weights as RAM and SGD as its CPU clock to run any computation during training.
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Like Hemingway: first slowly then all at once. With about-equal-frontier-swappable intelligence edge boils down to discoverability — tools, harness, data.
Few months ago Mythos could only find a single vulnerability in curl repository, now it basically became a CTF. What has changed? Better models? No. Better harnessing and steering by subject matter experts.
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Dare say Jim Hall’s rendition of Concierto de Aranjuez is superior to Miles Davis’.
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“There’s something about Greek that seems to go deeper into words than any modern language. So that when you’re reading it, you’re down in the roots of where words work, whereas in English we’re at the top of the tree, in the branches.” —Anne Carson buff.ly/jJEFKS2
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Simulacra and Simulation.
Saw this AI-generated sign outside of a spa that is a sign of a sign
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Never expected I’d quote-tweet the Pope with a Tolkien-aligned point.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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John Cassavetes explaining how he arranged money for his independent projects.
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apas retweeted
Four Quartets, read Four Quartets by TS Eliot, and then read the poem again, and re-read it, and again, and again, until you have it by heart. You need to know it. And have it with you always.
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"Greece is not just a place to visit, it's a place to do business." Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis explains why his government "tweaked our regulatory regime" to become more appealing to hedge funds and billionaires from London and New York bloom.bg/4A69rmU
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