I just finished Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy.
The books left me with a new sense of gratitude to be part of the universe's great story, and a heightened sense of wonder at the marvel of being alive to feel clean sheets against cold skin, or to watch a flock of geese land in still water.
On September 9, 1941, 82 years ago, Dennis Ritchie, the brilliant mind behind the C programming language and a key developer of UNIX was born.
C, which he wrote the book for it with Brian Kernighan, became the source for countless software applications and operating systems. UNIX, developed alongside Ken Thompson, laid the groundwork for modern computing.
Despite his passing on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70, Ritchie's legacy lives on
@SinclairSpeccy I once gave a talk on #swsec at bell labs. Dennis was in the front row. That talk included a "C is bad" chant as a silly hook (with audience participation). Dennis nodded his permission to proceed. The talk was really fun and was a harbinger of early static analysis tools.
I never thought that being an actual Blade Runner (someone that retires out of control AIs) could be a possible role in my profession.
It is awesome!
Isn't it @cigitalgem ?
In the case of LLMs the data set is immensely much larger as is the model. So awful aspects of the data are preserved during the training process. Because the data are not properly understood or curated, you get what you asked for. I think the same problems may emerge with different (but much larger) base models because the data are the big problem.
