Mark C.
@LargeCardinal
Scouse feral academic. Quantum Hacker, ML miscreant, & mathematician. Views own. Collects useless degrees. @quantum_village (he/him) @[email protected]
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
Amazing... Manipulating your paper so it lets a lazy reviewer get a positive review from an LLM! straitstimes.com/singapore/acad…
my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things. bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes. TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z GitHub: github.com/jackjackbits/b…
For years, maritime systems weren’t built with cybersecurity in mind because they didn’t need to be. Ships weren’t connected. That changed with VSAT and SATCOM, bringing always-on internet access at sea... Connectivity exposed deep technical debt. Critical onboard systems like…
"We could be within 5 years of really falsifying Einstein's classical theory." How? By generating entanglement in an experiment to test quantum gravity! I'm excited to release a technical deep-dive into how to test quantum features of gravity, explained in an approachable and…
The book I wrote with my HANDS and my BRAIN is out in paperback!
I don't wanna say 'I told you so', but I told you so.
Why can AIs code for 1h but not 10h? A simple explanation: if there's a 10% chance of error per 10min step (say), the success rate is: 1h: 53% 4h: 8% 10h: 0.002% @tobyordoxford has tested this 'constant error rate' theory and shown it's a good fit for the data chance of…
You can just tweet "Duration is the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state" and immediately get 1000 likes
After Archegos went down, Credit Suisse’s board tasked the consulting firm Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison with performing a postmortem analysis. The final report (from 2021) reads like a novel. It has not aged. It should be turned into a movie. ubs.com/global/en/inve…
We’ve got an smb vuln and now an RCE in word. Next up @hdmoore is gonna release this cool framework called Metasploit 2000s baby. They are back msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/v…
V10 OAuth & OIDC - Modern auth done right (thanks to all who pushed for this!) V11 Cryptography - A complete rewrite that @LargeCardinal , Gabriel Corona (randomstuff) and the crypto crew absolutely nailed
Quantum attacks on elliptic curve crypto have costs dominated by one operation: uncomputing a division (see fig15 and fig20 of arxiv.org/abs/2302.06639). Masking makes it easy to *compute* a division, but isn't reversible (arxiv.org/abs/2008.04577). A strange situation. Fixable..?
Rumour mill says big quantum news may be afoot... Commitment: cf8afc09a82c129969209e177b72bea679d9c857ecd2780a7eae24631eebe970