Hadi
@hadilq.bsky.social
A software engineer, and amateur scientist. It was easy for me to be a good one relatively, but I always struggle to be a better engineer and scientist. Shared ideas are mine and free, but I need their credit, so please refer when sharing them.
I see Signal is so secure that government officials use it, but it’s a great opportunity for @signal.org to provide company-wide platforms, so nobody could add anyone from outside to a group. Some structure like what Discord has for instance.
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I see Signal is so secure that government officials use it, but it’s a great opportunity for @signal.org to provide company-wide platforms, so nobody could add anyone from outside to a group. Some structure like what Discord has for instance.
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Microsoft is receiving a ton of push-back on its quantum computer claims - @kpc.bsky.social has the story www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
Microsoft under fire for claiming it has a new quantum computer
Researchers have criticised Microsoft's new Majorana 1 quantum computer, saying it has made claims about the way it works that aren't fully backed up by scientific evidence
www.newscientist.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Microsoft is receiving a ton of push-back on its quantum computer claims - @kpc.bsky.social has the story www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
Yesterday pushed “Probability is relativistic” post. It contains solutions for the “Sleeping beauty problem”, and a fairly good answer for if a theory of reality should support a deterministic view point. Feel free to leave your thoughts below.
hadilq.com/posts/probab...
hadilq.com/posts/probab...
Hadi's Notes | Probability is Relativistic
hadilq.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yesterday pushed “Probability is relativistic” post. It contains solutions for the “Sleeping beauty problem”, and a fairly good answer for if a theory of reality should support a deterministic view point. Feel free to leave your thoughts below.
hadilq.com/posts/probab...
hadilq.com/posts/probab...
finally a pragmatical move to control wild fires!
New wildfire-monitoring satellite system will be 'game changer' in North, officials say #Canada #CSA
Canadian Space Agency announced $72M WildFireSat constellation this month
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadian Space Agency announced $72M WildFireSat constellation this month
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New wildfire-monitoring satellite system will be 'game changer' in North, officials say | CBC News
Wildfire officials in Yukon and the N.W.T. are heralding the Canadian Space Agency's plans for a new $72-million WildFireSat constellation, announced earlier this month.
www.cbc.ca
February 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
finally a pragmatical move to control wild fires!
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Just published "Unit Testing ViewModels".
marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/unit-t...
#AndroidDev #Kotlin
#KMP
marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/unit-t...
#AndroidDev #Kotlin
#KMP
Unit Testing ViewModels
Lifecycle 2.9.0-alpha01 introduced ViewModelScenario, a helper that simplifies unit testing for ViewModels.
Why It Matters You can test a ViewModel by simply creating an instance using its constructor...
marcellogalhardo.dev
February 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just published "Unit Testing ViewModels".
marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/unit-t...
#AndroidDev #Kotlin
#KMP
marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/unit-t...
#AndroidDev #Kotlin
#KMP
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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
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For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits.
The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices
Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.
www.science.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits.
The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I suppose I should try to remind people more often that I recently published the second edition of my book "The Intelligence Illusion: Why generative models are bad for business"
illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
The Intelligence Illusion (Second Edition): Why generative models are bad for business
Available in PDF and EPUB
illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I suppose I should try to remind people more often that I recently published the second edition of my book "The Intelligence Illusion: Why generative models are bad for business"
illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
illusion.baldurbjarnason.com
with all respect to poor people and their values, yes I would trust a productive rich person with my money more than a poor, or even middle class, person since money is credit and the probability of a rich person understands how credit/money works is higher than poor, or even middle class, person!
Fox News host John Roberts: "If you're gonna trust anybody with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, wouldn't you want it to be a guy who really doesn't need your money?"
(Rich people, famous for not wanting more money ... )
(Rich people, famous for not wanting more money ... )
February 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
with all respect to poor people and their values, yes I would trust a productive rich person with my money more than a poor, or even middle class, person since money is credit and the probability of a rich person understands how credit/money works is higher than poor, or even middle class, person!
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So, y'all watched Hunger Games. And sided with the resistance.
Y'all watched Star Wars, The Matrix. Divergent. V for Vendetta. Saving Private Ryan. Inglorious Basterds. Schindler's List. And sided with the resistance.
It would seem it is only when it's fiction folk understand the assignment.
Y'all watched Star Wars, The Matrix. Divergent. V for Vendetta. Saving Private Ryan. Inglorious Basterds. Schindler's List. And sided with the resistance.
It would seem it is only when it's fiction folk understand the assignment.
February 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So, y'all watched Hunger Games. And sided with the resistance.
Y'all watched Star Wars, The Matrix. Divergent. V for Vendetta. Saving Private Ryan. Inglorious Basterds. Schindler's List. And sided with the resistance.
It would seem it is only when it's fiction folk understand the assignment.
Y'all watched Star Wars, The Matrix. Divergent. V for Vendetta. Saving Private Ryan. Inglorious Basterds. Schindler's List. And sided with the resistance.
It would seem it is only when it's fiction folk understand the assignment.
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Just as context: this is not an "I'm paying $10/month for a service and cannot get support"
It's more the "I'm paying thousands per year, have maybe 1-2 support requests per year and they've now made it impossible to resolve my issue"
Paying this much for no customer support makes no real sense
It's more the "I'm paying thousands per year, have maybe 1-2 support requests per year and they've now made it impossible to resolve my issue"
Paying this much for no customer support makes no real sense
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Just as context: this is not an "I'm paying $10/month for a service and cannot get support"
It's more the "I'm paying thousands per year, have maybe 1-2 support requests per year and they've now made it impossible to resolve my issue"
Paying this much for no customer support makes no real sense
It's more the "I'm paying thousands per year, have maybe 1-2 support requests per year and they've now made it impossible to resolve my issue"
Paying this much for no customer support makes no real sense
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And for iOS: enable Lockdown Mode.
February 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
And for iOS: enable Lockdown Mode.
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Install signal
Delete WhatsApp
This is not a drill
Delete WhatsApp
This is not a drill
Paragon and Pegasus have both leveraged WhatsApp to silently install spyware onto people's devices -- with no user interaction. Paragon used the ability to send malicious PDF documents in 2024, Pegasus used the call functionality in 2019. www.reuters.com/technology/c...
February 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Install signal
Delete WhatsApp
This is not a drill
Delete WhatsApp
This is not a drill
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"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, LLMs will do their thinking for them." if Orwell was writing today
February 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, LLMs will do their thinking for them." if Orwell was writing today
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I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
January 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
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LLVM-powered deobfuscation of virtualized binaries
https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/
https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
LLVM-powered deobfuscation of virtualized binaries
https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/
https://blog.thalium.re/posts/llvm-powered-devirtualization/
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A way to think about "AI" is that it's like single-use plastic: Super-convenient, sold as disposable, designed to be used without much thought, and while it's easy to get annoyed with your mom for using it, the real problem are the dudes destroying the planet in order to keep shoveling it out
January 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
A way to think about "AI" is that it's like single-use plastic: Super-convenient, sold as disposable, designed to be used without much thought, and while it's easy to get annoyed with your mom for using it, the real problem are the dudes destroying the planet in order to keep shoveling it out
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I turned off all of the "ai" options in the N4EJ Google Workspace last year because it's harmful trash
and yet today when I logged in there was a huge unavoidable popup pushing it, with a big open sidebar.
I checked: it's still off in the settings. Google is just ignoring them
and yet today when I logged in there was a huge unavoidable popup pushing it, with a big open sidebar.
I checked: it's still off in the settings. Google is just ignoring them
January 17, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I turned off all of the "ai" options in the N4EJ Google Workspace last year because it's harmful trash
and yet today when I logged in there was a huge unavoidable popup pushing it, with a big open sidebar.
I checked: it's still off in the settings. Google is just ignoring them
and yet today when I logged in there was a huge unavoidable popup pushing it, with a big open sidebar.
I checked: it's still off in the settings. Google is just ignoring them
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Some interesting bits on governance structure for some languages:
> Python: Benevolent Dictator For Life
> Rust: Community-driven open-source
> Kotlin: Corporate-backed open-source
> Swift: Corporate Dictator for Life
Nice article
blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-k...
> Python: Benevolent Dictator For Life
> Rust: Community-driven open-source
> Kotlin: Corporate-backed open-source
> Swift: Corporate Dictator for Life
Nice article
blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-k...
January 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Some interesting bits on governance structure for some languages:
> Python: Benevolent Dictator For Life
> Rust: Community-driven open-source
> Kotlin: Corporate-backed open-source
> Swift: Corporate Dictator for Life
Nice article
blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-k...
> Python: Benevolent Dictator For Life
> Rust: Community-driven open-source
> Kotlin: Corporate-backed open-source
> Swift: Corporate Dictator for Life
Nice article
blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-k...
Yes, if we all have locally running AIs that could learn from their mistakes in one shot, which is not in the horizon of current technologies!
That's what they always say: AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.
buff.ly
January 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Yes, if we all have locally running AIs that could learn from their mistakes in one shot, which is not in the horizon of current technologies!
Oops! I was thinking it’s about reducing bureaucracy! Private companies’ bureaucracy is worse since they will optimize it for profit, while what matters in the end is society’s productivity. Private companies will hire subcontractors to reduce the cost, where it’ll increase bureaucracy. IDK!
Bringing in billionaires is not about cutting waste but about selling the government for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...
Inside Elon Musk’s Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs
Mr. Musk has turned to Silicon Valley to help recruit executives who will take up unofficial positions across the federal government.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Oops! I was thinking it’s about reducing bureaucracy! Private companies’ bureaucracy is worse since they will optimize it for profit, while what matters in the end is society’s productivity. Private companies will hire subcontractors to reduce the cost, where it’ll increase bureaucracy. IDK!
Proton sent me an email with this title: "Happy Proton anniversary!", and with content to mention: "Congratulations! We have added 50 GB of free storage to your Proton account."
It's open source. It's secure. They are implementing what people ask! I don't understand people who don't subscribe!
It's open source. It's secure. They are implementing what people ask! I don't understand people who don't subscribe!
January 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Proton sent me an email with this title: "Happy Proton anniversary!", and with content to mention: "Congratulations! We have added 50 GB of free storage to your Proton account."
It's open source. It's secure. They are implementing what people ask! I don't understand people who don't subscribe!
It's open source. It's secure. They are implementing what people ask! I don't understand people who don't subscribe!
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I’m thrilled to announce that next academic year I will be a (tenured!) Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina in sunny, snowy Saskatchewan!
I plan to accept a graduate student this cycle, so please apply and list me as a potential mentor if you are interested in joining me!
I plan to accept a graduate student this cycle, so please apply and list me as a potential mentor if you are interested in joining me!
January 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that next academic year I will be a (tenured!) Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina in sunny, snowy Saskatchewan!
I plan to accept a graduate student this cycle, so please apply and list me as a potential mentor if you are interested in joining me!
I plan to accept a graduate student this cycle, so please apply and list me as a potential mentor if you are interested in joining me!
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
I'm sure AI will shine in this area. All religions are a category of business models, where you pay them in exchange for a talk, that doesn't need to be grounded to anything. This is exactly the area that LLMs are good at. They cannot fact check, they hallucinate, and they are persuasive like drugs.
"Can God speak through A.I.?" I'm not sure we are asking the right questions here. #AIEthics
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/t...
Religious Leaders Experiment with A.I. in Sermons
Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm sure AI will shine in this area. All religions are a category of business models, where you pay them in exchange for a talk, that doesn't need to be grounded to anything. This is exactly the area that LLMs are good at. They cannot fact check, they hallucinate, and they are persuasive like drugs.