Andrew Cullen
adrcullen.bsky.social
Andrew Cullen
@adrcullen.bsky.social
AI (security, privacy, HPC) at University of Melbourne, researcher who rides bikes to go nowhere, and lifts heavy things for fun. Surprisingly interested in Iranian brickwork (just weird like that).
From a market competition perspective, is stopping training even going to be viable prior to the existence of a monopoly, or monopoly like players? If a LLM never can reach the point of being feature complete, in my eyes there's always going to be a competitive incentive to try new things training.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Andrew Cullen
Sums it up.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These practices are still happening - a non-Aus Uni sent recruiters out to Australia recently, and all interviews were in a hotel suite.
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Personally I'd find Vegemite questions to be more adversarial than anything about adversarial machine learning.
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Like Vegemite you say? I'll give the word away for free then!

Will the hiring panel ask questions about Vegemite practices?
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I'm at 9 years waiting for one hospital clinic. At this stage it's an exercise in curiosity to see how long it'll be. They still text me every year to check that I want to stay on the waiting list.

Hilariously I've seen the same clinic 10 times for other reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Probably would help to just properly fund research in Australia too. 11 month cycles between grant submissions and results, plus a system that feels like a lottery does a lot to drive away talent. Capitalising on the changed global market is great, but there needs to be a financial backbone too.
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
They are attempting to get papers through the large AI conferences. One deeply unserious effort I saw had 4 citations, half of which were to lesswrong blogposts. While that one didn't make it through, they will in time, and they'll use those venues to launder reputation.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I've used wg-easy's wireguard + pi-hole config - github.com/wg-easy/wg-e... , running off a raspberry pi. I'm not sure if there would be implications for running it on the same device you'd like pi-hole on, but it was the most painless VPN setup I've ever gone through.
October 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Doesn't help too when the Minister is saying that budget decisions are the responsibility of the CSIRO - conveniently skirting around the fact that the decisions being made are the consequence of the amount of money made available for research.
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
And this isn't the only RE firm to be hit - I know of another in Victoria that recently got hit as well, and decided to not pay the ransom, which has lead to all that private information being leaked.
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Real Estate Agencies are a goldmine of private information. And this is not the first Australian one to be hacked - there's several on ransomware.live, and I know of at least one Victorian agency that isn't even tracked there.
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The contract is pretty simple to explain to - you don't have to be here. But if you do choose that, then you're mature enough to be trusted in setting your assignment dates, or even to some extent marking your own assignments. 1.3333333
August 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM