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Yay Southwest and Windows 3.1! It finally pays having a reactive IT department. 😂 To be fair I think Win 3.1 is the pinnacle of Windows. It’s the last version where you first boot into MS DOS and can freely modify the config.sys and autoexec.bat, and not have to deal with Windows Registry craziness! https://lnkd.in/gBDSjjdb

Go hug a Windows IT guy/gal today.

Disney Slack History 1TB worth stolen by hacktivist/insider, this following AT&T and Ticketmaster Snowflake/Okta breach that exposed hundreds of millions of users call logs and ticket purchasing habits. https://lnkd.in/gwBrs7Aa I like to make 2 points about these massive Fortune 500 leaks/hacks: 1. In order to export 1TB (much more unzipped ) of Disney Slack history with hydrated files, the insider needs Slack Workspace Admin or Owner access AND turn off the token expiry to hydrate files/attachments/images. The insider was actively involved in doing this, it takes a while to hydrate 1TB worth of files, as slack text would would only be a couple of gigs zipped. 2. SaaS need to stop their gimmicky two-tier pricing model that puts a critical security measure (SAML/OAuth2 SSO) only in the top or enterprise tier. SaaS needs to be managed by SSO like Okta, Auth0, or Cognito, because it conforms all enterprise SaaS tool user provisioning and sign-in to a single pane of control, and you get tools like geo-ip restriction login of privledged user groups (admins), MFA bells and whistles like requiring Authenticator over SMS, etc. The SaaS purposeful neutering of feature that already is "shipped" is as old as time or when the first Sales exec came up with this brilliant strategy: Car manufactures will ship cars fully loaded with features, and turn off or cover the button and pass them on as dealer options. Printers and computers and other electronic devices contain all features possible, with options buttons covered for 'low tier' models. You cannot do this with SaaS security - the liability is too great, when these SaaS companies like Slack and Snowflake will have to testify in court that they willfully neutered security features in their products, essentially holding their own customers' security protection ransom. Security Focus is a habit that needs to start at startup with 10 users - it cannot wait until you're a Fortune 500 and finally experience your first big cyberransom, and reactively put in SSO+MFA.

"A study of GPT-3.5-based ChatGPT's ability to solve 728 coding problems: fairly good at solving problems that existed before 2021, but struggles with newer ones. A reasonable hypothesis for why ChatGPT can do better with algorithm problems before 2021 is that these problems are frequently seen in the training dataset." The dirty little secret to LLM is it just reshuffles historical data and repackages in a human-readable format by using statistical grammar clustering as opposed to NLP rules. There is nothing Generative about GenAI. We should just rename it Regurgitative AI, or BarfAI for short. There are NO DATASETS you can train LLM on to GENERATE new ideas, sequences, patterns, etc. Here's a simple gut check: What dataset can you train ChatGPT 10.0 on so that it can correctly answer these questions: 1) Create me a GenAI startup business plan that will generate more revenue than its training cost? 2) Give me a protein nucleic acid sequence with enzymatic properties that attach to cancerous cells and kill them and no other autonomous cells, and this will work in-vivo in humans. LLM is not the way to AGI, if that's what folks are expecting/fearing. Unless we discover a time portal to connect to future datasets for LLM training or RAG source. The reports of humanity's demise is greatly exaggerated.

“The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.” This quote from Ben Kingsley in Sneakers 1992 is getting more and more apropos as this movie age like fine wine. If you haven’t seen Sneakers yet, add it to your queue.

Another firework display for the ultra rich thumbing their nose at the rest of us. 25 years ago my first software job was at Wilshire Associates. I built Axiom in C++, a fixed income portfolio management software used by the big 3 (Blackrock, PIMCO, Western Assets) to generate trillions of dollars in exotic derivatives hedging (CMO, CDO, CDS, Swaps) for the ultra-rich. I made $35K/year, and for XMas bonus when Wilshire does well (which is every year because of derivatives hedging), I got a whopping $5K bonus. In the summer of 2000, Dennis Tito the founder CEO disappeared; turned out he was training with the Cosmonauts in Russia. He paid $20M to be the first Space Tourist, launched up by Soyuz to wander in the ISS. When the Soyuz took off, we saw our bonus burn up in the atmosphere. This is how I see every Musk Space X Launch now - it’s fireworks for the ultra rich, nothing else. There’s got to be better ways to divert the trillions of dollars in government subsidies and NASA project grants given to SpaceX so a few mega billionaires can escape Climate Change of Earth and go to Mars. photo credit Rory McKenna

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