UL NO. 431: Companies are Graphs of Algorithms

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TOC

• NOTES

• MY WORK

• SECURITY

• TECHNOLOGY

• HUMANS

• IDEAS & ANALYSIS

• RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

• APHORISM OF THE WEEK

NOTES

Hey there,

It’s RSA week!

• Groq support
  coming soon
  to Fabric!

• If you’ve not messed with
  Groq
  yet, you need to. It’s basically SUPER FAST AI. Like almost instant.
  They’re able to do it because they have custom chips that nobody else
  has.
  TRY IT

• Saw my buddy Clint Gibler give his AI + Security talk at BSides, and it
  was fantastic! Great job Clint!
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I’ll be around RSA all week. Come say hi!

Ok, let’s get to it…

MY WORK

My new essay
is on how consultancies are about to move into departments and companies
offering to explain and automate everything with AI. And how it’ll be
more compelling and easier than you might think.

I’ve wanted to write this one for a long time…

Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

AI is about to see your company as a series of components to be optimized

danielmiessler.com/p/companies-graph-of-algorithms

—

My second new essay this week
on how I think prompting is the center mass of AI.

AI is Mostly Prompting

After 18 months of active AI development, I’ve found that 90% of the power
is in solid prompting.

danielmiessler.com/p/ai-is-mostly-prompting

SECURITY

The Biden administration is changing federal IT hiring filters to focus on
skills over degrees, which will unlock over half of the nation’s workforce
without a bachelor’s degree. Major win here. Especially for National
cybersecurity.
MORE

UnitedHealth’s CEO took personal responsibility for paying the $22 million
ransom after a cyberattack crippled their systems. Will be interested to see
the fallout—if any—that comes from that.
MORE

I worry about this signaling to other big companies that this is ok to do,
which will in turn encourage the attackers.

Satya Nadella sent a new security-first memo to over 200,000 employees
emphasizing security as the non-negotiable top priority. Really interesting
how it mirrors what Gates did way back when.
MORE

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A cybersecurity consultant got busted for trying to extort an IT firm for
$1.5 million by threatening to leak their secrets.
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Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint got hit with a $200M fine for
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TECHNOLOGY

This team trained a robot dog to walk on a ball IN A SIMULATION. Then
they put the code in a real robot and it just worked.
MORE

Google is pushing for the U.S. to revamp its immigration rules to prevent
the loss of AI and cyber talent to other countries.
MORE

My thoughts on the difference between a company that USES backend models vs.
ones that ARE NOTHING BUT backend models.

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ
@DanielMiessler

The most important question for anyone building AI products:

For an AI product that uses OpenAI, etc. on the backend, how do you
tell the difference between doing it in a way that’s sustainable vs. in
a way that’s vulnerable to Sherlocking on every new model release?

 

6:46 PM • May 1, 2024

  

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An Ontario doctor found AI note-taking to be so good that it saved her from
quitting.
MORE

I’ve got a doctor buddy who just started using AI notetaking, and he
absolutely loves it.

Gary Marcus calls out Sam Altman’s AI approach as a blend of fear,
ignoring uncertainties, and riding the hype wave. MORE

Apple’s rumored to be quietly amassing an AI mega team, poaching over 36
experts from Google and setting up a secretive lab in Zurich to push into
generative AI.
MORE

My friend Joseph Thacker just wrote a great post on Assumptions in LLMs.
Highly recommended.
MORE

Someone just automated a YouTube shorts channel entirely with free AI tools
and Python. |
MORE

Complexity’s Allure vs. Simplicity’s Power MORE

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HUMANS

30 Useful Concepts
MORE

AI just found 27,500 asteroids in old telescope photos, some of which
could be heading our way. MORE

The discovery of DMS, a molecule produced by marine life on Earth, in K2-18
b’s atmosphere hints at the potential for extraterrestrial marine life.
MORE

Despite a strong labor market, higher-paid employees are struggling to find
work, pointing to what people are calling a “white-collar recession.” The
hiring rate for those earning over $96,000 is significantly lower than for
those making less than $55,000.
MORE

Hard to say what all is involved here, but I think one fact is likely to
simply be that when you cut people for cost-savings purposes, you start
with those who make the most.

Strippers have an interesting way of measuring how well the economy is
doing.
MORE

The #1 metric for longevity seems to be V02Max, and another study reinforces
that position.
MORE

In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell MORE

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IDEAS & ANALYSIS

This woman is offended by being offered a help desk job because she has two
degrees. She’s in for a hard time, but it’s not her fault. It’s the fault of
the system that told her she was owed something just by doing classes and
homework.

And this is 100x worse now with AI because AI replaces this type of person
far faster than someone who doesn’t have this mindset.

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ
@DanielMiessler

The prime mistake is believing that a degree qualifies you for anything.

Everyone with this mentality is about to be very unhappy—especially when
AI has 100,000 times your education and never gets tired, sick, or wants
a new job.

Nat Miletic @natmiletic

She is not wrong. A new grad should be able to find a job in their
field.

But it’s all about networking especially when you’re starting out!

Would you take a tech support job as your first role?

 

7:25 PM • May 4, 2024

  

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Stop dunking on AI. It’s not hurting anyone but you. I recommend the whole
thread.

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ
@DanielMiessler

If you’re in tech and you’re constantly dunking on AI, you should stop.

Think about this:

AI is about to billions/trillions of new, highly-skilled, and
intelligent workers to the economy.

…which new startups and existing businesses can choose to use however
they want.

 

4:50 PM • May 4, 2024

  

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RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

My 3-minute recommendation for how to build a meaningful life.

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ
@DanielMiessler

My simple framework for a meaningful career and life—captured as a
3-minute video.

twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

 

11:10 PM • May 2, 2024

  

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APHORISM OF THE WEEK

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