Yazan Boshmaf

🚀 Big news from @aiXamine! We’ve just released our first public safety & security evaluation of LLaMA 3.1 8B, one of the world’s most popular open-source models. 🧠 12M+ downloads | 4.5k+ likes on Hugging Face. Here’s how it performs 👇

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2024 valuations: Nvidia: $2.2 trillion Intel: $132 billion 2009 valuations: Intel: $90 billion Nvidia: $5 billion

Pre-seed rounds are back to $500k at 5-10m, seed rounds 1-2m (10-15m) Which is ~2009-2014 era Founders are getting it done with less, and teams of 2-3 builder founders are running the show now. “Idea” founders outsourcing tech not getting funded any more.

@afarouqa @CryptoGodJohn It’s not about private keys. It’s about people identifying what addresses belong to your wallet, and linking them to your identity (it’s like publicly sharing your bank account, txes, and balance).

@boshmaf @CryptoGodJohn Thanks for the insight bro, my funds and crypto are kept in a hardware wallet with private keys off the internet. The ones on the internet are what i use for the daily basis whenever necessary.

I’m in a good mood - let’s see who has my notifications on Giving away $200 in 10 minutes All you need to do is LIKE RT & post usdt ERC20 address

@afarouqa @CryptoGodJohn Posting your token address in public tweets is bad for privacy bro. They’ll be able to link your social media account/s to your eth account/wallet. You lose your financial anonymity and this linking works for all of your past and future txes of addresses in your wallet 🤐

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Coinbase is launching in Canada today! 🇨🇦 New leadership, new payment rails, new regulatory milestones, and 200 local employees. Smart countries are embracing this technology (and creating regulatory clarity) to help update the financial system and drive economic growth. coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-…

The Next Major Pillar of Circle’s Strategy: Web3 Services Last year, @circle made an acquisition of a crypto infra platform called @cybavo. This week, we launched the first new product milestone with our Programmable Wallets offering. A thread on our strategy: 🧵

CEO of @Replit, @amasad, and Fahad Al-Khater visited QCRI & explored QCRI's cutting-edge research in Arabic Language Tech, Cyber Security, and Crisis Computing by Sanjay Chawla, @boshmaf, @ahmaksod, @mimran15. Had exciting discussions on generative AI, LLMs, and their prospects.

@xai - solely clean renewable energy. - multi planetary settlement. - material printing and synthesis at scale. - bioengineering & longevity for all. - economy and governance on blockchain. - AI augmentation for everyday’s life. - quantum computing as a utility.

What best describes your view for a positive future on a long time horizon?

@akelmagarmid اللهم اغفر لها وارحمها واسكنها فسيح جناتك 🤲 عظم الله اجركم واحسن عزائكم.

انتقلت الى رحمة الله امي الحبيبة يوم امس الاربعاء بعد وعكة صحية قصيرة وسيواري جثمانها الطاهر عصر اليوم الخميس في مقبرة سيدي مندر والصلاة ستكون في جامع بومشماشة والعزاء سيستمر في بيت الوالدة في باب بن غشير للرجال والنساء وذلك امام نادي الاتحاد اللهم اغفر لها وارحمها

Had an insightful conversation with @geoffreyhinton about AI and catastrophic risks. Two thoughts we want to share: (i) It's important that AI scientists reach consensus on risks-similar to climate scientists, who have rough consensus on climate change-to shape good policy. (ii) Do AI models understand the world? We think they do. If we list out and develop a shared view on key technical questions like this, it will help move us toward consensus on risks. I learned a lot speaking with Geoff. Let’s all of us in AI keep having conversations to learn from each other!

Big news to share: @a16z is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧 We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024. Why the UK? 👇 a16zcrypto.com/posts/announce…

@amasad @Replit Have you seen their Codespaces?

Congrats to GitHub on their new chat product in private beta, which is a full four months after @Replit Ghostwriter chat. We have a big new innovation on the chat model coming soon and I can’t wait for them to copy that too.

Google 👀

ChatGPT exploits a buffer overflow 😳

🚨I'm #hiring several full-time PhD student and postdoc positions to join my new group at @SIC_Saar. If you have a background in (broadly defined) "data science" and are enthusiastic about interdisciplinary research with real-world partners then please get in touch (email⬇️).

Our Cybersecurity group has organized its 3rd CIBR Workshop on blockchain technology. The focus was on cryptocurrency and darkweb security analytics. The event included a hands-on session where the invited stakeholders tried Dizzy, a dark web search engine.cibr.qcri.org

Dr. Mashael @malsabah2 and Dr. Yazan @boshmaf gave a talk to QIIB last week on cryptocurrency, smart contracts and fintech Learn more on gulf-times.com/story/702009/V… @QF @HBKU

@paulg @AlecStapp @robertwiblin What worries me more is what’s coming in 2021/2022. The recession cycle is way out of sync.

@AlecStapp @robertwiblin What happened in the early 70s?

Productivity in the construction industry is 25% lower today than it was in 1975. 45 years of getting worse at building things. Why aren’t we treating this like a national crisis??