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v4dok commented on Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud security.apple.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/serhack_

kfreds · a year ago

Wow! This is incredibly exciting.

Apple's Private Cloud Compute seems to be conceptually equivalent with System Transparency - an open-source software project my colleagues and I started six years ago.

I'm very much looking forward to more technical details. Should anyone at Apple see this, please feel free to reach out to me at stromberg@mullvad.net. I'd be more than happy to discuss our design, your design, and/or give you feedback.

Relevant links:

- https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future

- http://system-transparency.org (somewhat outdated)

- http://sigsum.org

v4dok · a year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

This is what they are doing. Search implementations of this to understand more technical details.

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v4dok commented on Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud security.apple.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/serhack_

v4dok · a year ago

This is Confidential Computing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

with another name. Intel, AMD and Nvidia have been working for years on this. OpenAI released a blog some time ago where they mentioned this as the "next step". Exciting that Apple went ahead and deployed first, it will motivate the rest as well.

v4dok commented on BYD's new EV, starting under $10K, is stoking fear among rivals electrek.co/2024/03/22/by... · Posted by u/redbell

user568439 · a year ago

The first wave of BYD cars in Europe are not competitive yet. The price difference is small, they are less efficient and they have other issues (space optimization, driving comfort, etc)

But in only one year they already started to fix all this. They are getting cheaper, correcting mistakes and opening factories in the EU.

Old makers announce a car and need 2-3 years or more to have it in the market. The Chinese brands seem to need less than a year. There will be blood.

v4dok · a year ago

I'm looking to get a car these days in EU. The government gives out subsidy for electric cars and even without it, there is simply nothing almost as good in Teslas range. EU makers are either too expensive or try to sell you shit for gold

v4dok commented on Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models blog.research.google/2024... · Posted by u/t3nary

v4dok · a year ago

I wonder where this would be practical. How big would the teacher model need to be?

v4dok commented on Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's? today.usc.edu/alzheimers-... · Posted by u/joveian

madaxe_again · 2 years ago

Indeed - it could equally be explained by dementia/Alzheimer’s being a contagious disease, such as a prion or similar protein malformation, which quite a bit of current research seems to suggest, and it simply had not become endemic at that point.

v4dok · 2 years ago

Do you have any research you can point for that, its quite interesting.

v4dok commented on RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python datadreamer.dev/docs/late... · Posted by u/patelajay285

v4dok · 2 years ago

I feel like the current meta on finetuning LLMs is random accounts at X/Twitter. Google results are littered with SEO garbage or some kind of guides that fail to work the moment you need something slightly different.

v4dok commented on Mixtral of experts mistral.ai/news/mixtral-o... · Posted by u/georgehill

spacebanana7 · 2 years ago

Perhaps they’re hoping some enterprises will be willing to pay extra for a 3.5 grade model that can run on prem?

A niche market but I can imagine some demand there.

Biggest challenge would be Llama models.

v4dok · 2 years ago

Niche market?? You have no idea how big that market is!

v4dok commented on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft twitter.com/satyanadella/... · Posted by u/JimDabell

v4dok · 2 years ago

I agree. 10B is peanuts for MSFT but its Satya's miscalculation. He didn't anticipate that and the board wouldn't be too happy about it.

v4dok commented on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft twitter.com/satyanadella/... · Posted by u/JimDabell

BSDobelix · 2 years ago

Honest question, why is he the best CEO?

v4dok · 2 years ago

He was a marketing person I believe when Bill was in MSFT. To become the CEO of MSFT is a huge political and competence firewall already. Then to do the most spectacular transformation of a mega-corp is next-level. MSFT is now the leading player in AI, while before it was still fucking around with office and Windows licenses. People who are young (not saying you are), and don't remember what MSFT was before Satya, don't really get that MSFT would be like Oracle and IBM if not for Satya.

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