Mark Pauley
@unsaturated.bsky.social
Professional Software Engineer, amateur skateboarder.
synthesizers, music, bad jokes and cats
synthesizers, music, bad jokes and cats
They’re really digging for some of these. “I’m not sad he died” does not seem like a fireable statement.
September 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
They’re really digging for some of these. “I’m not sad he died” does not seem like a fireable statement.
That’s not what he did though. He publicly trounced them in a mean way for his own personal profit. People who want to actually learn use tactics like those the Naval academy teach like presenting a strong form of your opponents argument. The truths he told were based on cherru-picking and bias.
September 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
That’s not what he did though. He publicly trounced them in a mean way for his own personal profit. People who want to actually learn use tactics like those the Naval academy teach like presenting a strong form of your opponents argument. The truths he told were based on cherru-picking and bias.
Let’s be real: Charlie didn’t deserve to get killed.
But the guy built his career on traveling to college campuses to clown on teenagers with zero debate experience while he himself had 100’s or 1000’s of hours of debate experience.
He was like a teenager playing basketball against 9 year olds.
But the guy built his career on traveling to college campuses to clown on teenagers with zero debate experience while he himself had 100’s or 1000’s of hours of debate experience.
He was like a teenager playing basketball against 9 year olds.
September 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Let’s be real: Charlie didn’t deserve to get killed.
But the guy built his career on traveling to college campuses to clown on teenagers with zero debate experience while he himself had 100’s or 1000’s of hours of debate experience.
He was like a teenager playing basketball against 9 year olds.
But the guy built his career on traveling to college campuses to clown on teenagers with zero debate experience while he himself had 100’s or 1000’s of hours of debate experience.
He was like a teenager playing basketball against 9 year olds.
I admire him for really putting his money where is mouth is
September 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I admire him for really putting his money where is mouth is
Is it possible to watch the ledgers for activity on any of these recipient wallet addresses?
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Is it possible to watch the ledgers for activity on any of these recipient wallet addresses?
Love the software, hate the long term unstable ABI
September 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Love the software, hate the long term unstable ABI
Stop making it exponentially bigger?
August 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Stop making it exponentially bigger?
Here’s an older piece: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10402
Here is one relating healthcare applications where privacy is particularly sensitive: arxiv.org/html/2412.20...
Anyway I feel like ML needs to solve the technical part of the problem you are pointing out, and tech co.’s have a lot of trust to rebuild
Here is one relating healthcare applications where privacy is particularly sensitive: arxiv.org/html/2412.20...
Anyway I feel like ML needs to solve the technical part of the problem you are pointing out, and tech co.’s have a lot of trust to rebuild
Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite t...
arxiv.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Here’s an older piece: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10402
Here is one relating healthcare applications where privacy is particularly sensitive: arxiv.org/html/2412.20...
Anyway I feel like ML needs to solve the technical part of the problem you are pointing out, and tech co.’s have a lot of trust to rebuild
Here is one relating healthcare applications where privacy is particularly sensitive: arxiv.org/html/2412.20...
Anyway I feel like ML needs to solve the technical part of the problem you are pointing out, and tech co.’s have a lot of trust to rebuild
Diff privacy can be used to steer synthetic training data to resemble (or at least comprise the same sample distribution as) actual user data. I was looking for references to papers I’ve seen on this, but am drawing a blank.
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Diff privacy can be used to steer synthetic training data to resemble (or at least comprise the same sample distribution as) actual user data. I was looking for references to papers I’ve seen on this, but am drawing a blank.
I personally would be more at ease if the resulting dataset was
1: provably private and
2: open source, so that it benefits all similar systems going forward.
Anyway yeah I totally agree that companies snooping with zero privacy guarantees and likely zero benefit to anybody is bad
1: provably private and
2: open source, so that it benefits all similar systems going forward.
Anyway yeah I totally agree that companies snooping with zero privacy guarantees and likely zero benefit to anybody is bad
August 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I personally would be more at ease if the resulting dataset was
1: provably private and
2: open source, so that it benefits all similar systems going forward.
Anyway yeah I totally agree that companies snooping with zero privacy guarantees and likely zero benefit to anybody is bad
1: provably private and
2: open source, so that it benefits all similar systems going forward.
Anyway yeah I totally agree that companies snooping with zero privacy guarantees and likely zero benefit to anybody is bad
I used to think this way, and then I started playing with modern machine learning systems. The data is basically all of the spec.
So but there are means of getting approximate sets of data that can’t be used to snoop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
This presupposes trust though which is lacking
So but there are means of getting approximate sets of data that can’t be used to snoop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
This presupposes trust though which is lacking
Differential privacy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I used to think this way, and then I started playing with modern machine learning systems. The data is basically all of the spec.
So but there are means of getting approximate sets of data that can’t be used to snoop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
This presupposes trust though which is lacking
So but there are means of getting approximate sets of data that can’t be used to snoop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
This presupposes trust though which is lacking
If you don’t trust the tech companies to handle your data with care, respect and privacy that’s 100% understandable. But the best you can hope for when you don’t give feedback is that someone near enough to your demographic is using the tech in a similar way as you and they are providing feedback.
August 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM
If you don’t trust the tech companies to handle your data with care, respect and privacy that’s 100% understandable. But the best you can hope for when you don’t give feedback is that someone near enough to your demographic is using the tech in a similar way as you and they are providing feedback.
In theory I agree but unfortunately that’s not how software works anymore.
The world is a squishy place with a huge long tail distribution and the software that best fits that is basically an input / output mapping that needs just ungodly amounts of data to fit your specific needs.
The world is a squishy place with a huge long tail distribution and the software that best fits that is basically an input / output mapping that needs just ungodly amounts of data to fit your specific needs.
August 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
In theory I agree but unfortunately that’s not how software works anymore.
The world is a squishy place with a huge long tail distribution and the software that best fits that is basically an input / output mapping that needs just ungodly amounts of data to fit your specific needs.
The world is a squishy place with a huge long tail distribution and the software that best fits that is basically an input / output mapping that needs just ungodly amounts of data to fit your specific needs.
From where I was standing they didn’t which is why we made fun of them
August 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
From where I was standing they didn’t which is why we made fun of them
They are trying to game Agentic AI crawlers
August 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They are trying to game Agentic AI crawlers
My paper had obscene pictures on it after I drew the with this pen!
July 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My paper had obscene pictures on it after I drew the with this pen!
Yes except we don’t know how to fix it
July 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Yes except we don’t know how to fix it
I mean it’s about as good as homies fantasy conspiracy and it only took you two prompts
July 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I mean it’s about as good as homies fantasy conspiracy and it only took you two prompts
I feel like I might try to get GPT into SCP mode just for entertainment purposes. Sounds wicked
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I feel like I might try to get GPT into SCP mode just for entertainment purposes. Sounds wicked
The model is probably in some sci-fi / fiction pathway. This reads like something out of an SCP
July 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The model is probably in some sci-fi / fiction pathway. This reads like something out of an SCP