Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models AnthropicReward tampering is a specific, more troubling form of specification gaming. This is where a model has access to its own code and alters the training process itself, finding a way to “hack” the reinforcement system to increase its reward. This is like a person hacking […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-26
Engineering for Slow InternetIf you’re an app developer reading this, can you tell me, off the top of your head, how your app behaves on a link with 40 kbps available bandwidth, 1,000 ms latency, occasional jitter of up to 2,000 ms, packet loss of 10%, and a complete 15-second connectivity dropout every few minutes? […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-19
KCS v6 – Consortium for Service InnovationA framework for support documentation Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to MakeThe school “figured out that the Eightball program accesses the Canvas data through the Canvas user generated token, which is essentially users’ Emory credentials that […]
Riverrock and some sports
There was a cricket game going on next to the soccer game. I don’t really know the rules, but it’s visually pretty dramatic. I liked the combination of white uniforms and the white fence. Riverrock was going on this weekend and my oldest (John) was photographing the bouldering competitions so I hung out for a […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-12
Canvas LMS “Unpublish All” Hack | Dave EargleCanvas foils both goals, as of publication date of this post. (1) There is no built-in way to unpublish all assignments. (2) When a module is published, all items within it are auto-published. But when a module is unpublished, items within it remain published. :facepalm: h/t ohheybrian.com Model […]
Known Problems with Our Academic Software Purchasing Process
That’s K.P.O.A.S.P.P. for those of you playing along at home. Anyway, here’s how I ended up writing up our issues with academic software purchasing. I think it’s got to be hitting other places as well. More stuff, more complexity, more concerns, and less people and funds can’t be unique to our organization. Even without financial […]
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Again with the photos
The lens bokeh and the net lines lead to some interesting effects at times. I need to do something more intentional with it. A blurry photo but one that reminded me of an old nature documentary showing gazelles grazing during a heat wave in Africa. Kind of a fun obstruction shot. The colors line up […]
Canvas and bulk unpublishing files in a module
Problem Bulk publish/unpublish in Canvas modules does not work on files. The UI does not make that apparent at all. Semi-solution Support should have told me that I can go to files and do bulk publish/unpublish there. Those actions impact the files displayed in modules. It’s not a perfect response but it’s better than nothing. […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-05-05
We Need To Rewild The InternetThe first magnificent bounty had not been the beginning of endless riches, but a one-off harvesting of millennia of soil wealth built up by biodiversity and symbiosis. Complexity was the goose that laid golden eggs, and she had been slaughtered. The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-04-28
Tracker Beeper – Bert Hubert’s writingsMakes a little bit of noise any time your computer sends a packet to a tracker or a Google service, which excludes Google Cloud users. https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller h/t D’Arcy Norman and Alan Levine The Ultimate CSS Shapes Collection […]