June 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

How screwed is Grar Pamps?
by professor rat 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Sorry - how screwed is John Eastman? No. How screwed is John Eastman! John Eastman! It turns out a Trump White House lawyer had warned him in real time that he was committing election crimes, and then Eastman sought a pardon before Trump left office, and then Eastman pleaded the fifth repeatedly to the January 6th Committee. This Dumb Fuck is totally screwed. Just like his boss. And if you’re wondering why the DOJ hasn’t indicted John Eastman yet, it’s likely for the same reason it hasn’t indicted Mark Meadows or Rudy Giuliani yet. The goal is prisoners dilemma - to keep piling on with more and more ironclad cases against these Dumbfuck co-conspirators, so they’ll figure out they’re going to prison for a long time, and cut a deal against the Don. Send lawyers guns and money - this shit has hit the fan

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Nearly half of Democrat men under 50 approve of assassinating politicians
by jim bell 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

The Overton Window has moved.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window?wprov=sfla1 ---------- Nearly half of Democrat men under 50 approve of assassinating politicians https://share.newsbreak.com/1aj5jtrh "A new poll last week found that voters who identified as Democrats were more likely than voters who identified as Republicans to support political violence, including assassinating politicians they deem to be a threat." "The poll, conducted by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and published June 1, found that 44 percent of Democrat men under the age of 50 said they “approve” of assassinating a politician “who is harming our country or democracy.” Republican women under 50 were the group with the second-highest approval for assassinating politicians, with 40 percent approving of such behavior."

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Mollusk dogged by lawsuits
by professor rat 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Probably cos Elon Musk is just criminal garbage more than anything else. https://decrypt.co/103089/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-dogecoin-lawsuit Reposts etc

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Dark web drug dealer jailed over cryptocurrency millions
by jim bell 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Dark web drug dealer jailed over cryptocurrency millions https://share.newsbreak.com/1ai5nepi

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[data science] Ladder Side-Tuning for Parameter and Memory Efficient Transfer Learning
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

This is nvidia-oriented research on using less memory with more accuracy and speed when making new equally powerful transformer models for new tasks off of existing large pretrained ones, on lower end systems and with less data. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.06522 https://github.com/ylsung/Ladder-Side-Tuning We propose Ladder Side-Tuning (LST), a new parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) technique that reduces training memory requirements by more substantial amounts. Unlike existing PETL methods that insert additional parameters inside backbone networks, we train a ladder side network, a small and separate network that takes intermediate activations as input via shortcut connections (ladders) from backbone networks and makes predictions. On both GLUE and VL tasks, LST saves 2.7x more memory than other PETL methods. To further show the advantage of this better memory efficiency, we also apply LST to larger T5 models (T5-large, T5-3B), attaining better GLUE performance than full fine-tuning and other PETL methods.

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Quantum Computer Programming for Dummies
by jim bell 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Quantum Computer Programming for Dummies https://share.newsbreak.com/1af4b2r1 Newswise — LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 14, 2022—For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly accessible, a new beginner’s guide provides a thorough introduction to quantum algorithms and their implementation on existing hardware. “Writing quantum algorithms is radically different from writing classical computing programs and requires some understanding of quantum principles and the mathematics behind them,” said Andrey Y. Lokhov, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the recently published guide in ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. “Our guide helps quantum programmers get started in the field, which is bound to grow as more and more quantum computers with more and more qubits become commonplace.” In succinct, stand-alone sections, the guide surveys 20 quantum algorithms—including famous, foundational quantum algorithms, such as Grover’s Algorithm for database searching and much more, and Shor’s Algorithm for factoring integers. Making the real-world connection, the guide then walks programmers through implementing the algorithms on IBM’s publicly available 5-qubit IBMQX4 quantum computer and others. In each case, the authors discuss the results of the implementation and explain differences between the simulator and the actual hardware runs. “This article was the result of a rapid-response effort by the Information Science and Technology Institute at Los Alamos, where about 20 Lab staff members self-selected to learn about and implement a standard quantum algorithm on the IBM Q quantum system,” said Stephan Eidenbenz, a senior quantum computing scientist at Los Alamos, a coauthor of the article and director of ISTI when work on it began. The goal was to prepare the Los Alamos workforce for the quantum era by guiding those staff members with little or no quantum computing experience all the way through implementation of a quantum algorithm on a real-life quantum computer, Eidenbenz said. These staff members, in addition to a few students and well-established quantum experts, make up the long author list of this “crowd-sourced” overview article that has already been heavily cited, Eidenbenz said.

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To Hell with criminal ' Natural Rights ' garbage
by professor rat 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

" . . . how much philosophical thought was imbued with a prejudice: the “governmental prejudice” – the belief that basically without government there is chaos. She then explained to us how this prejudice relates to the “archic paradigm”; a paradigm according to which one cannot think rationally nor live in common without an arche – that is to say without a principle which both begins and commands, and shapes order from chaos. . . " https://autonomies.org/2022/06/anarchism-and-philosophy/ If there was a Natural-Rights God it would be necessary to destroy it

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Hackers just launched the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history
by jim bell 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Hackers just launched the largest HTTPS DDoS attack in history https://share.newsbreak.com/1af1w5g5

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A Ragtag Band of Hackers Is Waging Cyberwar on Putin’s Supply Lines
by professor rat 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

In Belarus, forces opposed to President Alexander Lukashenko have been derailing Russia’s war against Ukraine. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-15/ukraine-war-attracts-bel… Reposts are not necessarily endorsements and NAZBOL PUNK NAZI SKUNK go KILL YOURSELF!

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Our new American exceptionalism | The Hill
by Gunnar Larson 16 Jun '22

16 Jun '22

Good article, but none of it profiles that New York can (and, should) take care of its own problems. Tacky to think New York would be tricked by a man in a wig and submit to California via Florida man in wig politics. Florida, if you are listening Don't Say Gay and Windmills are not New York's problem. What a mickey mouse situation... https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3515320-our-new-american-exce…

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