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Iain AF Fleming

@legalweasel.uk

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker. Francophile/phone. Quoad ultra denied [Uphall, Scotland]

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 8h

Respect and fair play to all the gifted teachers who, according to Nigel Farage, are poisoning our kid's minds with race issues.
I had great difficulty teaching some of the little buggers about triangles.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 16h

Oh, that is just so perfect!

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 17h

Could you nullify an entire presidency?
Damnatio memoriae?

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Shafik Yaghmour @shafik.bsky.social · 17h

"A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size": www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

Black hats have to be trying (Why wouldn't they, the potential gains are large). If it's really this easy then likely malicious code is already making its way into real code bases, maybe at scale.

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In a joint study with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume. Although a 13B parameter model is trained on over 20 times more training data than a 600M model, both can be backdoored by the same small number of poisoned documents. Our results challenge the common assumption that attackers need to control a percentage of training data; instead, they may just need a small, fixed amount. Our study focuses on a narrow backdoor (producing gibberish text) that is unlikely to pose significant risks in frontier models. Nevertheless, we’re sharing these findings to show that data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than believed, and to encourage further research on data poisoning and potential defenses against it.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 17h

Marvelous. Mine are in geography, computer science, and law. No pattern, no plan, just doing what I love. And I'm a better, different, more complete, person for each of them.

A degree that doesn't change how you think simply isn't worth doing.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

They do, however, need a six-foot penguin.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

I blame Richard Scarry for adult life being such a bitter disappointment.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

There are two very different ways to say "Never heard of it!"

1. "I, a person of great taste and importance who has heard of everything good, have never heard of this thing, hence it must be a bag of wank."

2. "Tell me more. I love finding out about new things, especially if they are brilliant."

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I can never understand why some people view "Never heard of it!" as a withering insult. Loads of things virtually nobody has ever heard of are brilliant. Not all things virtually everybody has heard of are total dogshit, but my empirical research has demonstrated to me that a vast number are.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

You’ve never learned to read or write
There’s no books upon your shelf...

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

I went back, in my forties, to do another degree - four years, doing law. Cost me a fortune, never really practiced, in the end, but loved every minute of it.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

Being a decent, intelligent, thinking, caring human being will always be safe.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

So beautiful.

Sleep well, little man.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

Countdown to Trump appearing on a balcony, wearing gold epaulettes, sunglasses, and a service cap...

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

Gets me, every damn time.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 18h

- What watch?
- Ten watch.
- Such much?

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 19h

"with tears in his eyes, big eyes, strong eyes..."

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 22h

The first change we should make - and one that can't be easily undone - is a move to PR. Anything else would be legally simple, if procedurally slow, to change back if Reform do get a majority. But PR would deny them both that, and the ability to make sweeping changes.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 23h

Good gods - is "the metaverse" still a thing?

That's pathetic.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

First "Unitary Executive" theory, and now Miller is dropping "plenary power" (ehther accidentally, or not). Scary stuff.

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

Galleried book shops!
<sigh>

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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

Ditto. (Even when I dress up in suit, waistcoat & bow tie, as I am sadly wont to do).

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HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 1d

You strike the patent troll with the prior art.
You miss.
The patent troll crushes you with the war chest.
You are dead.
The patent attorney sits down and starts singing about gold.
The patent troll leaves.
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Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

It'll go just as well as Conservapedia and Rightpedia.

Iain AF Fleming @legalweasel.uk · 1d

And then there are DOM parts of France, which are over the globe, but are full parts of the EU, as parts of France.