AtHeartEngineer
@AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #maker #Ethereum🦇🔊🐼🐍🟨🦀 Trying to make the internet better. Opinions are my own and subject to change
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 7 hours ago:
Where in the article did it say that? Did you read the article?
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
All my personal devices are named “AHE”+n. So the abbreviation for “at heart engineer”+ a letter signifying the device. So my phone is “AHEM”, my laptop is “AHEL”, my desktop is “aheo” (O for office), my server is “ahes”.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 2 days ago:
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 2 days ago:
I cancelled mine recently and will actively try to avoid using it. They also need competition.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 days ago:
I’ve had a Subaru CVT for 10+ years with over 200k miles no issues
- Comment on Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can 1 week ago:
I just googled “bird flu transfer to humans”
- Comment on Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can 1 week ago:
I’m seeing a lot of “could” and “might” and hearsay, but ya, unless it goes from human to human I am not that concerned… Just because there are so many other things more pressing to be concerned about, not that it’s something that should be ignored or anything.
- Comment on Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can 1 week ago:
The risk is higher yes, the way you stated that made it seem like there was something beginning to spread or that was very imminent… Like if the most recent bird flu had jumped to humans. That’s why I was asking. Definitely agree there is more risk, but I wasn’t sure if there was something going on we weren’t aware of.
- Comment on Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can 1 week ago:
I think they were referring to the new pandemic part.
- Comment on FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal 2 weeks ago:
This would have been helpful 10+ years ago
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to economics@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 3 weeks ago:
Integrity of the model, inputs, and outputs, but with the potential to hide either the inputs or the model and maintain verifiability.
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 3 weeks ago:
Zk in this context allows someone to be able to thoroughly test a model and publish the results with proof that the same model was used.
Blockchain for zk-ml is actually a great use case for 2 reasons:
- it’s a public immutable database where people can commit to the hash of some model they want to hide.
- It allows someone with a “model” (that doesn’t have to be a neural net, it could be some statistical computation) and verifier to do work for others for a fee. Let’s say I have a huge data set of property values/data for some given area, and I’m a real estate agent, and I want to have other people run some crazy computation on it to predict which houses will likely sell first in the next 30 days. I could post this challenge online with the data, other people could run models against that data and post their results (but not how they got them) on chain. In 30 days the real estate agent could publish the updated data and reward the best performer, and potentially “buy” their model. You could do this with a centralized service, but they would likely take a fee, keep things proprietary, and likely try to make some shady back room deals. This removes the middleman.
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 3 weeks ago:
Ahh, ya, so this is a deep rabbit hole but I will try to explain best I can.
Zero knowledge is a cryptographic way of proving that some computation was done correctly. This allows you to “hide” some inputs if you want.
In the context of the “ezkl” library, this allows someone to train a model and publicly commit to it by posting a hash of the model somewhere, and someone else can run inference on that model, and what comes out is the hash of the model and the output of the inference along with a cryptographic “proof” that anyone can verify that the computation was indeed done with that model and the result was correct, but the person running the inference could hide the input.
Or let’s say you have a competition for whoever can train the best classifier for some specific task. I could train a model and when I run it the test set inputs could be public, and I could “hide” the model but the zk computation would still reveal the hash of the model. So let’s say I won this competition, I could at the end reveal the model that I tried, and anyone would be able to check that the model I revealed and the model that was ran that beat everyone else was in fact the same model.
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 3 weeks ago:
The model that is doing the inference is committed to before hand (it’s hashed) so you can’t lie about what model produced the inference. That is how ezkl, the underlying library, works.
I know a lot of people in this cryptography space, and there are definitely scammers across the general “crypto space”, but in the actual cryptography space most people are driven by curiosity or ideology.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update 4 months ago:
I think it’s pretty reasonable for a company as big as delta to wait a little bit to see how a patch rolls out before upgrading.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 4 months ago:
I’m still salty about Bernie being sandbagged. Not a big fan of how Kamala was shoved in either, but she’s impressing me more than I expected, I just hope it’s enough.
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 months ago:
Thank you I needed new stuff to check out.
- Comment on Facing the Facts to Keep Our Biometrics Secure. 5 months ago:
We need consumer privacy laws
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 5 months ago:
Agreed, do endeavour, plain arch (maybe with something like arch install), or hard pivot and try nixos. Manjaro has never really been a good option.
- Comment on Healthcare: How Long Do Patients Have To Wait? 5 months ago:
They should also include Canada in that list
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 5 months ago:
That X is twice as much vram, which funny enough, is great for running ai models
- Comment on Mandalorian 6 months ago:
Chatgpt
- Comment on Google dropping ublock origin represents a flawless David vs Goliath victory for its developer 6 months ago:
Switch to firefox
- Comment on Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: report 6 months ago:
Do you think high skill trades aren’t an education? I don’t think they are saying anything against a traditional university education, but more supporting skilled trades as well.
- Comment on It seemed like a good idea at the time 6 months ago:
That’s an opportunity to learn how to do camping better next time, I promise it does get better
- Comment on What video game about the Vietnam war is your favorite? 7 months ago:
Ya it really did, and flying the helicopters was truly a challenge, so when you got good at it + the sound track, it was epic
- Comment on WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly 7 months ago:
This is much much harder though, and would risk exposing the vulnerabilities they are using, so they likely won’t use these methods unless it’s higher profile and involves some higher up govt entities. Your normal street crime cop shop won’t be able to do this.