I love the Financial Times. There, I said it. Why? Because Noam Chomsky told me to. Or, more accurately, Chomsky pointed out that the business press is for the people who actually run the show, and they need/demand accurate information. If you want to peak over their shoulders, it ain't cheap, but it is there.... Continue Reading →
Hannah Murphy's FT piece- "Hackers manipulate large language models in effort to highlight flaws" - was fascinating. This bit leapt out Anthropic published research in April on a technique called “many-shot jailbreaking”, whereby hackers can prime an LLM by showing it a long list of questions and answers, encouraging it to then answer a harmful... Continue Reading →
Whoop!! My tenth letter published in the FT (mostly they are on climate, but also Tom Lehrer etc, and with a roughly 50% success rate of submit-appear). https://www.ft.com/content/bdf57e59-aba0-4f81-ae5c-872bbcd3c9ec In his letter (April 30) responding to Anjana Ahuja’s column about the now fixed Voyager 1 (“Rejoice! Voyager 1 is back from the dead”, Opinion, April 26),... Continue Reading →
Another blog about the Morning Star and Financial Times, which I get most Saturdays. See first blog here. The Morning Star had some good stuff Kerr, M. 2024. Miliband commits to £8.3bn GB Energy investment strategy. Morning Star, February 17, p.3. McCail, C. 2024. The anti-politics of Starmer's Labour. Morning Star, February 17, p.12-13. (on... Continue Reading →
"The two essential daily newspapers in the UK are the Morning Star and the Financial Times" - discuss (1). I've not time, money or inclination to get them every day, but on Saturdays... So, I will try to blog a bit about them, what I learn etc. For the FT it might only be the... Continue Reading →
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