93 / The Waluigi Effect

Published on March 12, 2023

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Toot of the Week

#Software can be like bananas: Not yet ripe and and already rotten at the same time. — @ewolff@mastodon.social

Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles (matthewgrohman.substack.com)
Matthew Grohman about the advantages of understanding other roles (including a list of resources!)

I don't want to log in to your website (robinrendle.com)
Robin Rendle about sketchy sales tactics and the value in simple and honest websites.
Things DBs Don't Do - But Should (thenile.dev)
Gwen Shapira has a list of feature requests for the a modern database.

I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again. (cloak.software)
This article describes the advantage of using Rust in a startup.
When Zig is safer and faster than Rust (zackoverflow.dev)
zack compares unsafe Rust to Zig and explains why Zig was working better for them.
Living with Rust Long-Term (video) (youtu.be)
Jon Gjengset about the things you need to be aware of when building a project in Rust for a long time.
Tricks of the Trait: Enabling Ergonomic Extractors (video) (youtu.be)
Rob Ede explains how you can accept functions with different kinds of arguments in a handler in Rust.

The Waluigi Effect (lesswrong.com)
Cleo Nardo about the inner workings of the Waluigi Effect and other jailbreak methods for LLMs.
AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search (rachsmith.com)
Rach Smith describes an AI use-case that trumps content generation: Search.
Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment (simonwillison.net)
Simon Willison appt the current state and future of LLMs.

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021) (eukaryotewritesblog.com)
Georgia Ray explains why most trees developed individually and other weird botanic quirks. Thanks, Eric!
How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled (newyorker.com)
Ben Taub tells the story of Jan Marsalek in the Wirecard scandal and how the fraud was exposed. Thanks, Lukas!

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