Luke Rasmussen

🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Are we currently clean on OPSEC? Asking for a friend.

Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.

“Posting personal information to Grok is more like, ‘Wheee! Let’s throw this data out there, and hope the company is going to do what I want them to do,’” Dr. Malin said.
Yup - listen to @bradmalin.bsky.social! Caveat Emptor!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w...

If you didn't make the cut, feel free to reach out to cfp at bsideschicago.org and we will do our best to provide feedback to help you improve. And again, so many great talk just missed the mark due to running out of time slots. #BSidesChicago #CFP

I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

If that's true, then I must be tremendously fit! Can't wait to tell my doctor the good news.

SIPS 2024 Online Program

We are happy to announce that the online conference schedule is now ready to view. View the Online program here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tppQ2LwDzpdqatTA0JUm3NZ9k1vrer2qWKJVxv0r5HQ/edit#gid=1932976819
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Sorry, all I can hear is "Goodbye Horses" playing in the background...

Ten simple rules to leverage large language models for getting grants.

1. Don't
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two grey dumpsters amongst some parked cars

it's nice to see Cybertrucks just parked alongside more ordinary vehicles

About $4.50 a bottle 🥁
Am curious if it's legit, but I'm more and more skeptical of all this stuff being more than a way to sell product.

Using a data dictionary as your roadmap to quality data | Crystal Lewis An introduction into why and how to build a data dictionary.

Working on another data dictionary today, I am reminded again how important these documents are in the research life cycle. Creating data dictionaries early on creates a roadmap for your entire project, leading to more high quality and usable data.
cghlewis.com/blog/data_di...

I realize I'm being a snarky jerk, but given what happened with Epic's sepsis model, this just feels a little... ironic. Hopefully they will use their own tools.

I remember one of my science teachers had one, and there were 2 videos he showed on it :) I thought it was pretty cool too!

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Specifically, our...

'We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT' arxiv.org/abs/2403.06634 #llms #chatgpt

Really great read, thanks for highlighting!

Talking about Large Language Models Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature. Yet, in their very nature, such systems are fundamentally not lik...

Nice piece from @CACMmag on large language models cacm.acm.org/magazines/20... #llms #artificialintelligence #nlp

Found this on my desktop. Classic in the making...

So true! Sadly, I know I have been that speaker on more than one occasion...

Love reading #informatics papers that have a #ResearchSoftwareEngineering focus! Kudos to Post et al for describing their architecture and approaches with TDD. academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions

We'll be doubling the space for #BSidesChicago 2024 - surveys were commenting on many talks overflowing. And #CareerVillage will be a thing for sure! #Hacking #CyberSecurity

#BSidesChicago is up on BSKY!
@bsideschicago.bsky.social

Screenshot of Metroid Fusion that says, “attacker: the parasitic organism we now know as X.”

New euphemism for Twitter discovered, thanks to Metroid Fusion (2002)