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An einem Freitagnachmittag Ende November, am Nebentisch im Literaturcafé in der Fasanenstraße bestellt ein älterer Herr einen Malteser zum Bier. Wir fragen uns, was moorige Erdkluten in regennassen Ausläufern der letzten Eiszeit mit Sturheit, Zähigkeit und einer Tendenz zum Schweigen gemeinsam haben. Wir sind beide dort aufgewachsen, wir sagen, unsere Wurzeln sind da, wir sagen…
This happens when you don’t patch you apps: some tiny dirty hack happened on my server, installing a krypotminer named kinsing, by using a vulnerability in log4j. I noticed some strange CPU load and an execubale named kinsing in /etc . It instaled itself in crontab through a system entry when re-starting. And uhm, yes,…
McKinsey hat wieder einmal eine Studie veröffentlicht und wie immer muss man diese natürlich in den Kontext einer Unternehmensberatung einsortieren, die ständig auf der Suche nach neuen Betätigungsfeldern ist. Aber McKinsey ist nun auch einmal kein ganz kleiner Laden und somit können die sich schon aufwändige Studien leisten, die oftmals einen wahren Kern haben. Nun…
A new study was conducted regarding the results of different language models. The main outcome is: size doesn’t always matter. Large lang models (LLM) are trained on up to 530 billion parameters which results in significant cost effetcs. The study shows, that models with much smaller parameters like chinchilla (70 billion parameters) outperform ther colleagues,…
Nico hat vor ein paar Tagen drüben bei LinkedIn die steile These aufgemacht, dass AI nicht als Abkürzung für Artificial Intelligence, sondern für Augmented Intelligence stehen sollte. Und damit hat er aus meiner Sicht komplett recht und einen wichtigen Punkt: Künstliche Intelligenz sollte „nicht in einem bedrohlichen Kontext gesehen werden“, sondern eher als „Erweiterung unserer…
I’ve been an avid runner since years, doing some races, marathons and triathlons. I would say, that in general I am aging well, but since I became 42 or so, my knees started to hurt when moved in awkward ways. It’s not always but from time to time it hurts so much, I can’t do…
Today 5 years ago I was driving on the german Autobahn A5 at 05.30 in the morning, when a sleepy van driver changed onto my lane unexpectedly I had to dodge it and crashed into a lorry nearly unbreaked. Thankfully I was not injured but my car was totally destroyed as I had hit the…
The other day I was drawn into the retro wave and got out my old iPod classic. I still love the iconic interface which set new boundaries. I especially like that is has no internet connection and thus no notifications or other connectivity which distracts from – well, just listening to music. On the other…
I was using LittleSnitch years ago and installed it again yesterday. LittleSnitch is like a neat little firewall (basically it’s a socket filter for macos) – but it also now has this neat map in a great design showing at a glance, where your data is going to geographically: Its funny to see, how some…
As I mentioned previously, ChatGPT is quite good (but not only at) at SQL. I think its a great opprotunity to really learn to code (if you want to call SQL querying „coding“ but that’s another discussion). I mean, only this information is SO valuable, I would have searched stackoverflow for hours finding the reason…