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Injected Approval: A Low Effort Local LLM Jailbreak
Large-Language-Models
Jailbreaking
Cybersecurity
A quick look into into one of the simplest attacks on LLM safety mitigations, revealing large gaps in current approaches from major tech companies.
Modeling Stock Market Corrections Over 150 Years
Data-Analysis
Data-Exploration
Stochastic-Modeling
Investing
How fast does the stock market correct back to long-term trends? Let’s fit a fat-tailed, skewed stochastic model to find out.
Leaderboard of Open LLMs Ranked by LLM Judges
Machine-Learning
Large-Language-Models
Leaderboard
Evaluation
An evaluation of recent consumer-grade open LLMs based on ratings generated through an LLM-as-a-judge framework.
How to Run LLMs Larger than RAM
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Machine-Learning
Large-Language-Models
Linux
A short experiment on running larger LLMs on low-end consumer hardware, with comments on performance trade-offs and practicality.
How Risky is a Correlated Hedge?
Investing
Hedging
Correlation
Risk-Management
A brief analysis of how much risk you can reduce by hedging with correlated assets. Even in a perfect world, a 90% correlation limits risk reduction to about 50%.
A Tale of T-Mobile Prepaid Billing Errors
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T-Mobile
Prepaid-Plans
FCC-Complaint
Consumer-Protection
A discussion of an odd bug in T-Mobile’s systems, resolved only after filing an FCC complaint. This post details my experience, the support timeline, and the root cause of the mysterious charges.