April 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Thousands of dead cops
by professor rat 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Would you believe hundreds? How about a dead police dog and sick police-horse? " . . . . the Los Angeles Police Department accidentally released the names and photos of numerous undercover officers to a watchdog group that posted them on its website. The dataset allegedly includes the photos of 300 undercover police. These “300 undercover officers launched a lawsuit against the city and LAPD, calling the disclosure “catastrophic negligence”, according to the Daily Dot. https://ddosecrets.substack.com/p/release-lapd-headshots-269-mb Reposts not dum-dum bullet, head-shots of pig-cops

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[ot][spam][crazy] using spasmodic behaviors to translate openai prompts to local models?
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

i wonder if i could just like spam the list in a way that converts the langchain prompts 1. i have some prompt tuning intuition and could make a stab at some of this 2. i'm generally on mobile when spamming, so it's harder to test local models, but maybe doable setting up a good karl-harness that makes this easier would likely make it become enjoyable

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[ot][project-idea][spam] langchain adapter
by fuzzyTew 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 🐶 Bark Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model created by Suno. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio - including music, background noise and simple sound effects. The model can also produce nonverbal communications like… https://t.co/ZpvzNmW94Z Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1650159967301672960> ---------- langchain - @LangChainAI RT @logspace_ai: Join us for a @LangChainAI webinar next Wednesday to explore a universe of no-code agents and chains! ⛓️🦜 Read more at Twitter <https://twitter.com/LangChainAI/status/1650193029226168320> ---------- End forwarded message ---------- Langchain contains prefabbed prompts that work with openai’s paid api. The way prompts and models work is such that different prompts can work with different models. Langchain has an associated hub where such prompts can be collected, but it would be nice if it worked with other models out of the box. Notably local models. The task of generating good prompts is called prompt tuning. This can be automated if there is data to guide a prompt tuner with. Langchain has a caching mode that collects such data. It is easier to automatically generate soft prompts (embeddings that are vectors of floats) than hard or token prompts (basically normal text), but soft prompts generally only work on local models, since API interfaces usually don’t accept raw embeddings as inputs. ideas: - [ ] glance through the langchain hub to see if anybody has been curating prompts for local models. if so, look for or start work on integrating those into default easy usage. - [ ] work on developing a data generator that runs tasks through the various default prompts. this could be as simple as enabling caching and running examples. - [ ] set up code to tune soft prompts for various popular local models. this could use a soft prompting, peft, or adapter library, or be done manually as soft prompting is simply training where only a passed embedding vector is trained. optionally the original default prompts could be included to make a more plug-and-play system, although note that the increased data size will require more resources to make use of the result. - [ ] contribute code for allowing for soft prompts or adapters with local models. there is an existing soft prompting library that could be referenced for interface ideas. - [ ] look up hard prompting and find a way to reasonably accomplish this. this has the advantage of being directly user introspectable and working with remote apis, but given the results are less powerful and harder both to construct and to use compared to soft prompts it may be a little less interesting. i might start with data generation and try to present it a little well regarding prompting and adapting the recent llama-adapter project did find a way to make a powerful-looking hybrid of the two that would work for other models as well there is an alternative to the above approaches, where a human simply writes prompts for the models the way 5he langchain developers did for openai’s models.

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note: speeds of digital and biological systems are unrelated
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

i responded to a therapist after a few months and now chatgpt is giving me 5s/token (very slow) a week ago i got a speeding ticket after traveling to visit a monastery i hadn't gotten a reply back from yet

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A Polish anarchist named Leon Czolgosz shot the President
by professor rat 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Hail Zolgo full of reason / give me strength to Lets Go Brandon https://anarchistnews.org/content/incomparable-anarchist-frankie-moore Reposts not reposts from a discredited invisible committee of complete morons

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Screaming at police: “You better be fucking scared! Yeah, you better be fucking scared! We ain’t fucking stopping. Fuck you!
by professor rat 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Hate these sinners - love their sin https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/23/the-hot-seat-two-proud-boys-testifyin… Reposts not copkillers at large in huge numbers

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Water Theft Proves Lucrative in a Dangerously Dry World
by Gunnar Larson 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Our journey learning about Water.org was a big part of what has become Bank.org. --- Water Theft Proves Lucrative in a Dangerously Dry World https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-20/water-theft-proves-lucra…

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The Nord Stream Explosion Remains an Unsolved Mystery Gripping Europe
by Gunnar Larson 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Shortly after midnight last Sept. 26, a digital seismograph tucked inside a shallow well on the Danish island of Bornholm picked up an unusual signal. The device, roughly the size and shape of a football helmet, registered a pressure wave passing through the rock beneath the island. The wave generated a stream of data points that zipped along cables to a nearby family’s garage, where a computer snipped the signals into chunks representing a few seconds apiece. That data then traveled via internet cables strung beneath the Baltic Sea to Copenhage The Nord Stream Explosion Remains an Unsolved Mystery Gripping Europe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/nord-stream-pipeline-exp…

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Quantum PKI as the next big thing
by professor rat 23 Apr '23

23 Apr '23

Existing quantum key exchange is expensive and therefore nosebleed elitist - whats needed then is state-of-the-art key exchanges for the plebs. Do youse want to know more? What could be? https://phys.org/news/2023-04-long-distance-quantum-teleportation-enabled-m… Reposts not timewasting gasbagging about the what-is

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Adams lawyers urge City Hall staff to watch their words - POLITICO
by Gunnar Larson 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

NEW YORK — Top lawyers for New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently held a private briefing coaching City Hall staffers on how to avoid unwanted public scrutiny of government information. The key? Be careful what you write down. Or pick up the phone instead. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/adams-new-york-city-hall-staffers-…

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