scientist: machine learning, language🔹prof with affiliations and an h-index🔹i research online harms - characterisation, identification, and mitigation🔹british, based in copenhagen, living in seattle🔹i 💚 equity and efficiency
Prof Ross Anderson, RIP
This is not something I was expecting or ever imagining I would write; I’ve just heard.
This is a tremendous loss for us all.
Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng
Our dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, died suddenly at the family home in Cambridge overnight.
Duncan Campbell
If someone tells you the last day of the year is 123123 just unfollow them, you don’t need that unsortable non-ISO8601 negativity in your life.
@jbigham it feels like a lot but I think I've already forgotten most of it
When walls come tumbling down...
#Monday #MossMonday #Mosstodon #Moss #MacroMonday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria
Recently I set up https://llmsecurity.net to track all the huge mass of research on LLM security. There's a definition there too, if you're in NLP, security, or just curious and don't know much about this area. It's only about a year old, full of serious folks, and a lot of fun!
@Koefoed @PeterHald the latter, I heard. Still didn't persuade me. Also ice prompts a physical change
“Foundation” vs “Dune”
Isaac Asimov: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from using math we haven’t discovered yet
Frank Herbert: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from tripping on drugs we haven’t discovered yet
@mikarv was the same issue with NeurIPS some years back. We haven't learned. Turkey is a great easy-visa destination, with an airline that flies to more nations than any other - but the country inflicts its own injustices.
@henkheijmans wow if that's the bagu*ette* imagine how large the normal size one is!
Faced with a choice, do both (given by Dieter Rot)
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
@yminsky Is there any reason GPT4 would give correct answers?
People talk about "uncensored" LLMs, but are they actually censored in the first place?
Turns out you can use a *very* simple model to guide other LLMs into generating toxicity, and you can do this automatically
https://interhumanagreement.substack.com/p/faketoxicityprompts-automatic-red
@researchfairy OK but your statement isn't "being critical", it's just being bigoted. I'm sorry you can't see this!
@researchfairy oh, this is really bigoted
@aletsi they are a Cutie!
Just #Seattle things (did not even realise this weather type existed while I lived in Europe)
@arossp i find this makes bsky kinda exhausting tbh. mdon feels like a series of residential cul de sacs
@DavidPenington @emilymbender @timnitGebru
Oh man, Dave, what planet are you on.
First, people kill themselves over non-consensual porn, it's existential, this is established way beyond the point where it's even slightly controversial
Second, it doesn't just emerge from an inevitable vacuum - some guy chooses to make it and post it
Honored to receive the Test of Time Award at @usenixassociation #nsdi23 together with Yoshi Kohno and David Wetherall, for our 2012 NSDI paper studying web tracking. That paper introduced ShareMeNot, which I later helped incorporate into the @eff's Privacy Badger, where it lives on ☺️
