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‘AWS Lambda cheatsheet’ — a quick ref card for Lambda users
(tags: aws lambda ops serverless reference quick-references)
Turtle Bunbury – THE NIGHT OF THE BIG WIND, 1839 (Reprise)
The Night of the Big Wind was the most devastating storm ever recorded in Irish history. Known in As Gaeilge as ‘Oiche na Gaoithe Moire’, the hurricane of 6th and 7th January 1839 made more people homeless in a single night than all the sorry decades of eviction that followed it.
(tags: 1839 1830s 19th-century ireland turtle-bunbury history storms weather hurricanes)
One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end – Mike Monteiro
Twitter, which was conceived and built by a room of privileged white boys (some of them my friends!), never considered the possibility that they were building a bomb. To this day, Jack Dorsey doesn’t realize the size of the bomb he’s sitting on. Or if he does, he believes it’s metaphorical. It’s not. He is utterly unprepared for the burden he’s found himself responsible for. The power of Oppenheimer-wide destruction is in the hands of entitled men-children, cuddled runts, who aim not to enhance human communication, but to build themselves a digital substitute for physical contact with members of the species who were unlike them. And it should scare you.
(tags: politics twitter mike-monteiro history silicon-valley trump)
A history of the neural net/tank legend in AI, and other examples of reward hacking
@gwern: “A history of the neural net/tank legend in AI: https://t.co/2s4AOGMS3a (Feel free to suggest more sightings or examples of reward hacking!)”
(tags: gwern history ai machine-learning ml genetic-algorithms neural-networks perceptron learning training data reward-hacking)
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I want to talk about why this vulnerability continues to exist so many years after WPA was standardized. And separately, to answer a question: how did this attack slip through, despite the fact that the 802.11i handshake was formally proven secure?