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.

Sums it up.

These practices are still happening - a non-Aus Uni sent recruiters out to Australia recently, and all interviews were in a hotel suite.

Personally I'd find Vegemite questions to be more adversarial than anything about adversarial machine learning.

Like Vegemite you say? I'll give the word away for free then!

Will the hiring panel ask questions about Vegemite practices?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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