Mark C.

I have been laughing at this entirely too long...

If you disagree then your exploits may not be complex enough 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wonder what I mean? Well, for one, even with seamless tool integration, the frontier models are still pretty poor at debugging for xdev purposes. It makes sense — the public training data for that is inexistent…

Don't forget - QKD can actually be hacked... We've had some stellar talks on this @quantum_village , best of which is from Prof. Vadim Makarov: youtu.be/Phh-jO--bDU

I have been dreaming of this day for a long time. Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders. It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. arenamag.com/silicon

When Wired asked us to run Sybil against a vibe-coded AI research site, we couldn’t resist. Thanks to @willknight for diving deep into our approach and what makes Sybil different from legacy scanners. This is just the beginning 😈 wired.com/story/i-watche…

HOLY F: Workday just lost the argument that matters most. A federal judge said their AI hiring tools can be challenged for filtering out applicants over 40. “The algorithm did it” is NOT a defense. If this holds… every company using automated hiring just stepped into legal risk. You’re not crazy... if you’ve applied to 50, 100, 200 jobs and heard nothing… The system itself may be filtering you out. The decision means the plaintiffs may continue pursuing claims that Workday’s technology had a disparate impact on applicants age 40 and older. - SHRM Judge Lin dismissed some California claims and one disability claim, but gave plaintiffs until March 27 to revise and refile.

I'm at this DARPA expMath (AI for math) program kickoff and the lineup is legendary. Like, at the level of a truly historical meeting, held at a historical time. Makes me feel way more important than I actually am lol

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08716

Design Conductor: an AI agent that can build a RISC-V CPU core from design specs. The agent is given access to a RISC-V ISA simulator and manuals... to enable an end-to-end verification-driven generation. The most important thing for design intelligence is a verifier 😎

A 2-layer neural network goes from total chaos to perfectly separating left vs right classes in real time. Watch the decision boundary form live as gradient descent works its magic! Pure maths beauty in motion..

Books about entropy all have the same problem. The longer you read them, the more random they get.

Claude telling me I'm wrong: man I'm glad I have this perspective available to me. Claud telling me I'm right: this is clearly sycophantic behavior, I need a different perspective.

Pretty chuffed with my 0.07% tbh.

Spent the last few days thinking about some conjecture. Gathered strong evidence it was true: proved it up to dimension 15 (by computer, about 100,000 cases). Just found an easy counterexample in dimension 16.

RE//verse 2026 talks are live on YouTube! Want to revisit a talk or catch the ones you missed? The full playlist is now available: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Key management? Hard problem?

China's biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an AI assistant with its own SSL private key sitting inside the installer. Qihoo 360, think Norton or McAfee, but dominant across the entire Chinese market It appears that their new AI product, 360安全龙虾 (Security Claw) bundles a wrapper on @OpenClaw. Inside the installer package - accessible to anyone who downloaded it - was a private SSL certificate key for the domain *.myclaw.360.cn. An SSL private key is essentially the master password to a website's encrypted connection. With it, an attacker can impersonate 360's servers, silently intercept user traffic, forge a login page that looks completely legitimate, or possibly take over the AI agent altogether. The cert is valid until April 2027 and covers every subdomain on the platform. It's now public. The founder launched the product with a promise it would "never leak passwords". It did that during release? 461 million users, a $10B valuation, and nobody checked the zip file before shipping. The cert expires April 2027.

輪っかをウニョウニョさせて数字を表示する時計かわいい reddit.com/r/ArduinoProje…

CS didnt get worse, it got brutally stratified. a median new grad from 3 years ago is now literally less productive than someone with good prompting skills and a $200/month API budget. but the top 5% of systems engineers? theyve never been more valuable. companies are paying insane comp for people who can actually build inference infrastructure, optimize GPU clusters, and ship production ML systems. the degree isnt dead, the middle is dead. if you graduate and your only skill is "i can write CRUD apps" then yeah youre competing with claude. if you understand how claude actually runs under the hood, you can name your price @Leo_Traydes