2025-07-04
Can a pre-commitment to not give in to blackmail be "countered" by a pre-commitment to ignore such pre-commitments?
Published on July 4, 2025 11:48 AM GMTAs I understand it an actor can prevent blackmail[1]Â by (rational) actors it they credibly pre-commit to never give in to blackmail.Example: A...
Beachgoers Startled by Rare Cloud That Looks Exactly Like a Giant Tsunami Wave
Cloud Tsunami A viral video making its rounds on social media shows geachgoers in Portugal encountering an enormous and unnervingly tsunami-like cloud rolling in. Footage shows an enormous, foreboding wall...
Housing Roundup #12
Published on July 4, 2025 12:10 PM GMTAbundance and YIMBY are on the march. Things are looking good. The wins are each small, but every little bit helps. There are...
Community Confused by "Rizzbot" Walking Around With Cowboy Hat and Chain, Complimenting Their Outfits in Gen Alpha Slang
Straight G A cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot, dubbed "Jake the Rizzbot," is wandering the streets of Austin, Texas, turning heads and flinging compliments using some truly cringeworthy — and equally...
"In six months, if I'm telling you what to do, I've hired the wrong person."
#hiring #careeradvice #careerdevelopment
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AI Seizes Top Spot on Leaderboard for White Hat Hackers
For the first time ever, an AI model has seized the top spot on a white hat hacking leaderboard. In a blog post, the Xbow cybersecurity firm boasted that it...
Food for Agile Thought #500: 5C Strategy Framework, Product Enshittification, Fail Fast Culture Failure, How to Unlearn
TL; DR: 5C Strategy Framework — Food for Agile Thought #500 Welcome to the 500th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 40,612 peers. This week, Maarten...
People Are Taking Massive Doses of Psychedelic Drugs and Using AI as a Tripsitter
Artificial intelligence, already trippy enough, has taken on a new role for some users: one of a psychedelic "trip-sitter" who guides them through their hallucinogenic journeys. As the MIT Tech...
phi-3-mini's Triumph: Redefining Performance on Academic LLM Benchmarks
Witness phi-3-mini's impressive results on standard academic benchmarks for reasoning and logic, challenging models like Mistral 8x7B, Gemma 7B, and GPT-3.5 with comparable performance.
Implementing Zero Trust Security in Cloud-Native Environments by Shashi Prakash Patel
Zero Trust Security is a modern framework built for cloud-native systems, replacing outdated perimeter-based models. It enforces identity-based access, micro-segmentation, and continuous monitoring to protect applications, data, and infrastructure. While...
Microservices Observability: A Comprehensive Guide by Brajesh Kumar
Observability isn’t just about monitoring anymore—it’s about knowing why things break before users even notice. This article explores the three pillars of observability (metrics, logs, and traces), dives into modern...
Beyond the Perimeter: Architecting Trust in the Cloud-Native Era by Mohit Kumar Singh
In a world where perimeters have dissolved, Zero Trust is essential for securing cloud-native environments. This guide breaks down the core principles of Zero Trust—Never Trust, Always Verify; Assume Breach;...
Microservices Observability: Leveraging OpenTelemetry in Real-World Systems by Gajinder Sharma
Debugging distributed systems is painful without proper observability. This guide shows how we implemented OpenTelemetry in our Node.js microservices stack—from setup to best practices—boosting traceability, performance monitoring, and cross-service debugging...
Unpacking phi-3-mini: Architecture Driving Phone-Deployable LLM Power
Dive into phi-3-mini's technical core: a 3.8B Transformer decoder with 4K context (128K LongRope option), Llama-2-like block structure, and the data-optimal training recipe enabling on-device deployment.
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Refocusing
Freedom, liberty and independence are human rights. But they depend on responsibility. Responsibility to others, to our future, to the community. Responsibility for our actions and our choices. The only...
phi-3-mini: The 3.8B Powerhouse Reshaping LLM Performance on Your Phone
Witness a breakthrough! phi-3-mini, a 3.8B parameter LLM, trained on 3.3T tokens, unleashes performance rivaling Mixtral 8x7B and GPT-3.5, now compact enough for phone deployment.
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