Warren F.
@pscookiemonster.bsky.social
Systems Engineer with a penchant for PowerShell, science, cooking, information security, family, cookies, and the Oxford comma.
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
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July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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This is going to be the vibe coding version of the Chernobyl disaster, a wholly preventable failure caused by a combination of hubris, incompetence and design flaws.
March 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is going to be the vibe coding version of the Chernobyl disaster, a wholly preventable failure caused by a combination of hubris, incompetence and design flaws.
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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Cybersecurity people loves to focus on zeroday exploits instead of basic security hygiene, but in a lot of cases where threat actors do actually use zeroday exploits, their impact would have been significantly blunted by basic security hygiene.
Neuberger explained that, in one telecom company’s case, a single administrator account had access to over 100,000 routers, so when the Chinese compromised the account, they gained broad access across the entire network.
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December 27, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Cybersecurity people loves to focus on zeroday exploits instead of basic security hygiene, but in a lot of cases where threat actors do actually use zeroday exploits, their impact would have been significantly blunted by basic security hygiene.
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genAI is a threat to knowledge and information systems and is eroding public trust in technology at a fast pace and will eventually shred social fabrics that hold us together
September 19, 2024 at 12:58 PM
genAI is a threat to knowledge and information systems and is eroding public trust in technology at a fast pace and will eventually shred social fabrics that hold us together
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JFC Nate Silver’s new book is over 450 pages.
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
August 17, 2024 at 8:21 PM
JFC Nate Silver’s new book is over 450 pages.
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
Was the advance not big enough to afford an editor?!?
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some people who make programming easier (who am I missing?)
August 29, 2023 at 7:11 PM
some people who make programming easier (who am I missing?)
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behind "hello world" on Linux https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hello-world/
August 4, 2023 at 5:10 PM
behind "hello world" on Linux https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hello-world/
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Openness is key for fundamental research & for making informed choices for or against deployment of LLM+RLHF architectures. The closed & proprietary nature of ChatGPT makes it fundamentally unfit for responsible use in research and education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05532 great paper!
July 17, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Openness is key for fundamental research & for making informed choices for or against deployment of LLM+RLHF architectures. The closed & proprietary nature of ChatGPT makes it fundamentally unfit for responsible use in research and education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05532 great paper!
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I wrote about what makes Threads so depressing
Facebook's Threads is so depressing
Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport
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July 6, 2023 at 4:27 PM
I wrote about what makes Threads so depressing
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July 2, 2023 at 7:22 PM