Thomas Friedel

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist

Part 26: AI training: How to Handle Copyright, Data Protection And Other Restrictions 27 March 2025 - AI models – especially large language models – need to see a lot of data as part of their training so that they can map the concepts required...

Switzerland seems to also allow training on copyrighted works: www.vischer.com/en/knowledge...

The new chatgpt image style transfer is so impressive. Love the caricatures the most!

Releasing obstore 0.6! - obstore The simplest, highest-throughput Python interface to S3, GCS & Azure Storage, powered by Rust.

Obstore v0.6 brings simple, painless integration with Microsoft Planetary Computer!

- *Automatic token refresh*. No need to manually fetch SAS tokens and never think about token expiration times again.
- STAC API integration

developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

There's now so many awesome #geospatial people here it's hard to keep track! 🤩

Here's a thread of some of my favourite starter packs so far - let me know what I've missed!

🛰️ Earth Observation & remote sensing: go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL

🌏 GIS: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6 @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social

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Hat with the words “please do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself”

Visiting friends in New York

My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12

asking the GOP, will they impeach this mf?

Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee A bill banning gene-based vaccines, like some forms of the COVID-19 vaccine, received approval from a Senate subcommittee Monday.

Among all the utterly insane stuff going on, this ranks pretty high on the insane scale. mRNA vaccines are one of the great scientific advances of this century.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bill...

This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.

Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)

Microsoft's OmniParser V2: Turning Any LLM into a Computer Use Agent

Blog: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Hugging Face: huggingface.co/microsoft/Om...
GitHub: github.com/microsoft/Om...

an audible “no fucking way..” escapes my mouth

they claim that you can get LLMs to give you well calibrated confidence scores

like, i knew you could do something like this with logits/attention values, but the idea that the LLM could speak it back to you.. 🤯

🌍 New paper: Generative networks for spatio-temporal #gap_filling of #Sentinel2 reflectances @esa.int.

🆓 Free access the first 50 days to the #ISPRS paper @elsevierconnect.bsky.social:
isp-uv.short.gy/GapFillingSe...

Work developed in the context of Xaida Project.
#AI #EarthObservation

DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

Today’s Stratechery was great on this: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

Today, the Sentinel-2C spacecraft will take over from S2A in providing operational data.

This is wonderful news, and will ensure continuity of the Sentinel data for many years to come. Great effort from the S2C commissioning team!

See here for more info: sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

Project Eaden raises $15.6m Series A to launch ‘ultra-realistic’ plant-based meat using fiber spinning tech The funding will help the firm scale up manufacturing and support the launch of plant-based ham at 2,000 REWE stores in Germany in mid-2025.

agfundernews.com/project-eade...

Google's Titans: a new architecture with attention and a meta in-context memory that learns how to memorize at test time as presented by one of the author - @alibehrouz.bsky.social

"Sky-T1-32B-Preview, our reasoning model that performs on par with o1-preview on popular reasoning and coding benchmarks."
That was quick! Is this already the Alpaca moment for reasoning models?
Source: novasky-ai.github.io/posts/sky-t1/

False-color data from Maxar (left) and Planet (right) reveal the horrific extent of destruction in LA. Never seen anything like the scenes on the ground. Stay safe, donate, support climate action

A new position paper on "inference time compute".

They present some theory on why it is necessary, how does it work, why we need it and what does it mean for "super" intelligence.

This might be the first time after 10 years that boosted trees are not the best default choice when working with data in tables.
Instead a pre-trained neural network is, the new TabPFN, as we just published in Nature 🎉

calvin and hobbes (june 30, 1993)

Excited to finally share this work w/ @suryaganguli.bsky.social Tl;dr: we find the first closed-form analytical theory that replicates the outputs of the very simplest diffusion models, with median pixel wise r^2 values of 90%+. arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292

“By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI”
www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFFaKu...