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BREAKING: Musk locks down Twitter code, brings in trusted software engineers from TESLA to review the code
Blind ^ | October 28, 2022 | Engineers

Posted on 10/28/2022 8:38:16 AM PDT by nwrep

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To: dragonblustar

https://n.actionsack.com/unusual_whales/status/1586107721916780544#m

1st post

The big squeal begins


181 posted on 10/28/2022 3:25:57 PM PDT by dforest
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To: yelostar

Your understanding of globalism needs enhancement.
International trade is extremely useful to lower costs for all including Americans. The key is trade balance. Allowing china the gigantic trade deficits is the problem.

Elon Musk has created many high paying jobs in United States. He did not build Tesla factory 100% in China like Apple did. Musk is a skilled engineer, smart businessman, and a visionary. Can’t think of anyone in America who has all those skills.


182 posted on 10/28/2022 4:34:58 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: Still a Patriot

me too. if it’s going to be open source from now on, he can even crowd source it.


183 posted on 10/28/2022 6:14:12 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Roadrunner383

Yes...but when offending code is identified,i.e. stiff that implemented the bias ..the person who checked it in can be identified and perhaps fired!


184 posted on 10/28/2022 9:20:31 PM PDT by fremont_steve
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To: Zathras
They are using AI from Google to search the internet for users opposed to the liberal agenda.

WHEN are we going to begin building the gibbets? WHEN???

185 posted on 10/29/2022 5:02:18 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
...Trying to review all of the code for a briefing to Musk early next week is going to result in weekend work for some unlucky Tesla engineers, and it will only be a high-level review. In-depth code reviews take time...

Why do you call them "unlucky"?

To me, this sounds like a plum assignment, demonstrating that these engineers are considered the best and most reliable that Elon has. And, it is a hugely interesting project. If any of these "unlucky" engineers want to pass I am certain there will be volunteers to take their place.

There are probably bonuses for discovering any back doors or traps in the code.

186 posted on 10/29/2022 10:05:46 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: glorgau

I saw a group photo of the kids who oversee what gets pullled

Almost all young hipster males

Surprised me I expected some blue haired fat pasty girls non binary of course


187 posted on 10/29/2022 10:09:32 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: glorgau

One way Twitter could have covered up their bias is outlined below.

Look at the full article for live links and lots of comments.

P.S. Schneier is not a conservative, but he is committed to online privacy, computer security and unrestricted availability of encryption. And he is opposed to government attempts to subvert these things. (He also is a well-known cryptographer, whose algorithms have been in widespread use.)

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The following is excerpted from:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/manipulating-machine-learning-systems-through-the-order-of-the-training-data.html

Most deep neural networks are trained by stochastic gradient descent. Now “stochastic” is a fancy Greek word for “random”; it means that the training data are fed into the model in random order.

So what happens if the bad guys can cause the order to be not random? You guessed it—all bets are off. Suppose for example a company or a country wanted to have a credit-scoring system that’s secretly sexist, but still be able to pretend that its training was actually fair. Well, they could assemble a set of financial data that was representative of the whole population, but start the model’s training on ten rich men and ten poor women drawn from that set,­ then let initialisation bias do the rest of the work.

Does this generalise? Indeed it does. Previously, people had assumed that in order to poison a model or introduce backdoors, you needed to add adversarial samples to the training data. Our latest paper shows that’s not necessary at all. If an adversary can manipulate the order in which batches of training data are presented to the model, they can undermine both its integrity (by poisoning it) and its availability (by causing training to be less effective, or take longer). This is quite general across models that use stochastic gradient descent.


188 posted on 10/29/2022 7:14:52 PM PDT by powerset
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To: powerset
If an adversary can manipulate the order in which batches of training data are presented to the model, they can undermine both its integrity (by poisoning it) and its availability (by causing training to be less effective, or take longer). This is quite general across models that use stochastic gradient descent.

Nice find!

I'm not a mathematician by any means. ;-)

But I've been led to believe that neural nets don't find optimal solutions, they find local minima within a "space". It sounds like that scheme sets the bounds of the "locality" and then trains the net to create rules within that space. Interesting stuff.

189 posted on 10/29/2022 7:46:26 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: nwrep

How sweet it is!


190 posted on 10/31/2022 5:36:50 AM PDT by The Westerner (It was "A Republic, if you [could] keep it.")
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