March 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Ukraine the tactical-pivot - Moldova the strategic-pivot - Turkey the prize
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine rolls on, Turkey is caught between major powers – but could be crucial to ending the fighting https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/russia-invasion-ukraine-turkey-caugh… Reposts are not necessarily endorsements ( Unless you're Batshit-Crazy )

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From Non-NATO Ukraine to cryptoanarchist friendly space in central Asia
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised NATO and says he is no longer pressing for his country to join the military alliance. This clears the way for a crypto-anarchist line-of-march as by far the least-worst of limited options left for this brutalized polity. Ukrainians may then look back to the best of the Makhnovista experience and forward to APster assassination of all their state and religious enemies. E-estonia has only made a net-revolution half-way - someone has to go all the way first. Oh, and welcome to the Global Crypto-Anarchist Revolution!

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Crypto-cosmology as homomorphic netspace
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

The split-key-cosmology approach is similar to homomorphic crypto where you may process some information without full decryption. A promising line of attack involves close attention to energy inputs in the early universe. Calculating its Hamiltonian could help us establish whether cosmic inflation borrowed energy from ’ the bulk ’ ( primal vacuum ) This should be a fairly straight-forward application of Einstein’s famous equation. At least in theory.

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Deutsche Bank Has Lost 38 Percent of Its Market Value in a Month; That’s a Big Problem for Wall Street and the Fed
by Gunnar Larson 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/03/deutsche-bank-has-lost-38-percent-of… Deutsche Bank (symbol DB on the above chart) closed at $16.50 on the New York Stock Exchange on February 10 of this year. It closed at $10.23 yesterday – a decline of 38 percent in a month’s time. That’s a big problem because Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected to Wall Street banks via derivatives. According to Deutsche Bank’s most recent annual report, as of December 31, 2020, it held $35.4 *trillion* in notional derivatives. (Notional means face amount. See the table on page 147 of the 2020 Deutsche Bank Annual Report here <https://investor-relations.db.com/files/documents/annual-reports/Annual_Rep…> .)

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(No Subject)
by zeynepaydogan 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

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[old][ai] Open Source Alternative to Megatron-based Language Models Released February
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

The latest free language model from EleutherAI is 20B parameters large. It doesn't look like it is integrated into mainstream hubs like huggingface yet. This takes somebody to do the integration, and time to work with the people who run the hub. Maybe the team is looking for more community-oriented efforts to develop. Last time EleutherAI released a free service for people on low end systems to play with their model. I made a bot that automated this at high frequency on discord, by inspecting their javascript. Now, the service is for-pay, but the cost is microcents. https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox https://blog.eleuther.ai/announcing-20b/ February, 2022 - links removed from plaintext Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave. As of February 9, 2022, GPT-NeoX-20B checkpoints are available for download from The Eye under Apache 2.0. More in-depth information on GPT-NeoX-20B can be found in our preliminary technical report. Looking for a demo? Try GPT-NeoX-20B via CoreWeave and Anlatan’s new inference service, GooseAI! After a year-long odyssey through months of chip shortage-induced shipping delays, technical trials and tribulations, and aggressively boring debugging, we are happy to finally announce EleutherAI’s latest open-source language model: GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained using our GPT-NeoX framework on GPUs generously provided by our friends at CoreWeave. GPT-NeoX-20B is, to our knowledge, the largest publicly accessible pretrained general-purpose autoregressive language model, and we expect it to perform well on many tasks. We hope that the increased accessibility of models of this size will aid in research towards the safe use of AI systems, and encourage anyone interested in working in this direction to reach out to us. As a thank you to our generous compute donors, we are delaying the public downloadable release of the model by 7 days. On February 9, 2022, the full model weights will be downloadable for free under a permissive Apache 2.0 license from The Eye. There will be a #20b channel set up in our Discord for discussions of this model. Please note that much like our other language models and codebases, GPT-NeoX and GPT-NeoX-20B are very much research artifacts and we do not recommend deploying either in a production setting without careful consideration. In particular, we strongly encourage those looking to use GPT-NeoX-20B to read the paper and datasheet on our training data. There are still bugs to be ironed out and many inefficiencies that could be addressed—but hey, we do this in our free time, give us a break lol Task Category Babbage Curie GPT-J-6B FairSeq-13B GPT-NeoX-20B DaVinci LAMBADA Sentence Completion 62.49% 69.51% 68.29% 70.95% 71.98% 75.16% ANLI R1 Natural Language Inference 32.40% 32.80% 32.40% 34.00% 33.50% 36.30% ANLI R2 Natural Language Inference 30.90% 33.50% 34.00% 33.00% 34.40% 37.00% ANLI R3 Natural Language Inference 33.75% 35.50% 35.50% 34.75% 35.75% 36.83% WSC Coreference Resolution 54.54% 49.54% 49.54% 55.44% 49.04% 59.18% WinoGrande Coreference Resolution 59.51% 64.56% 64.01% 67.40% 65.27% 69.93% HellaSwag Sentence Completion 40.38% 54.81% 36.53% 57.69% 53.61% 63.46% Total 39.40% 42.57% 40.28% 44.67% 43.31% 48.40% Accuracy on standard language modeling tasks. Subject Group Babbage Curie GPT-J-6B FairSeq-13B GPT-NeoX-20B DaVinci Humanities 27.01% 26.48% 28.07% 27.27% 28.70% 32.30% Social Science 27.94% 29.24% 28.73% 27.94% 31.63% 35.87% STEM 25.83% 24.25% 25.71% 24.63% 26.27% 28.60% Other 26.86% 28.84% 27.95% 27.33% 29.83% 36.85% Total 26.78% 26.90% 27.38% 26.53% 28.77% 32.86% Zero-shot accuracy of factual knowledge by subject group, as measured by the HendrycksTest evaluation.

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Litigaphobia: Excessive Fear of Litigation
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

People can be scared of being litigated against, and they can also be scared of engaging in litigation against others. Both of those can be very powerful, and can change. I don't actually know anything about it, but thought I'd share since some have mentioned litigation on this list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: [tiactivism] Word for the day To: Tiactivism <tiactivism(a)groups.io> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3704056/

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Fwd: 10 things you must do in a Hybrid War
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Products <Joe_Products(a)seznam.cz> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:55:41 +0100 (CET) Subject: 10 things you must do in a Hybrid War Best techniques during the Great Russian Hybrid War are as follows: 1. Update all your personal devices with the latest security patches. 2. Back-up your data to an offline storage. 3. Switch off online devices such as printers that can be used as bots. 4. Check all your accounts on social media if they are not used as spambots. 5. Use strong passwords, two-factor authentication to your e-mail. 6. Subscribe to classic news media outlets. Don’t get distracted by unchecked news bites. Don’t share unchecked news. Read before share. Share content from credible sources. 7. Limit your dependence on gas and oil. Drive less. Heat less. Use renewables. Cycle to work. Walk to buy groceries. Sleep more. 8. Don’t waste your energy on online fights. 9. Report any suspicious activities to the authorities. 10. Keep calm and work.

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Anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

And, now that the anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future, it is worthwhile to re-examine the question calmly and without preconceptions. I shall do so briefly from my point of view as a communist or associationist; others will do so, should they wish, from the individualist point of view. (I use the word ‘associationist’ as an alternative to the word ‘communist,’ not because I like pointless new jargon, but because I forsee the possibility that the communist anarchists will gradually abandon the term ‘communist’; it is growing in ambivalence and falling into disrepute as a result of Russian ‘communist’ despotism. If the term is eventually abandoned this will be a repetition of what happened with the word ‘socialist.’ We who, in Italy at least, were the first champions of socialism and maintained and still maintain that we are the true socialists in the broad and human sense of the word, ended by abandoning the term to avoid confusion with the many and various authoritarian and bourgeois deviations of socialism. Thus too we may have to abandon the term ‘communist’ for fear that our ideal of free human solidarity will be confused with the avaricious despotism which has for some while triumphed in Russia and which one party, inspired by the Russian example, seeks to impose worldwide. Then perhaps we would need another adjective to distinguish us from the rest — and this could well be associationist or societist or such like, although it seems to me that simply to use the term ‘anarchist’ would suffice.

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Researchers Demonstrate New Side-Channel Attack on Homomorphic Encryption
by jim bell 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/researchers-demonstrate-new-side.html "A group of academics from the North Carolina State University and Dokuz Eylul University have demonstrated what they say is the "first side-channel attack" on homomorphic encryption that could be exploited to leak data as the encryption process is underway." "Basically, by monitoring power consumption in a device that is encoding data for homomorphic encryption, we are able to read the data as it is being encrypted," Aydin Aysu, one of the authors of the study, said. "This demonstrates that even next generation encryption technologies need protection against side-channel attacks." "Homomorphic Encryption is a form of encryption that allows certain types of computation to be performed directly on encrypted data without having to decrypt it in the first place."

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