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My career advice usually falls within the framework of doing the absolute minimum amount of work necessary to prevent starvation, and then doing something that’s not about money, completely outside of supporting structures, and not simply a matter of “consuming experience” with the remaining available time.
By the way, let’s take a moment once again to appreciate the fact that a bicycle from 1982 accepts a 130mm wheel and a 9-speed cassette with some gentle persuasion and a few turns of the limit screws, and that there’s enough range left in the derailleur and the shifter that I’m sure 11 speeds would be no problem. Let’s also celebrate the fact that simply updating the cassette and the chain is sufficient to radically improve the quality of the shifts. Will a modern road racing bike age this gracefully and remain similarly useful half a century from now?
Evil Is as Evil Does
Eben Weiss
Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
“Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim memorized training examples,” the researchers wrote in their paper, which was [published online to the arXiv preprint server on Tuesday](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17035.pdf). “Our extrapolation to larger budgets (see below) suggests that dedicated adversaries could extract far more data.”
ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show
Jordan Pearson
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