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“Until man learns to respect and speak to the natural world, he can never truly understand his place on this Earth.”
😳 Nico Rosberg details everything that went into beating Lewis Hamilton in 2016
“My superpower was preparation. That's the superpower. Because natural talent, Lewis is the goat and the greatest, so I'm not going to beat him with natural talent.”
“So food, first of all, there's body weight. Three hundredths of a second per lap was one kilogram of my body weight. That's two seconds of race time. So one kilogram will make the difference between winning and coming second. That's crazy.”
“My helmet is black because I took the paint off. I'm the only one with a black bare carbon helmet because I went to my helmet manufacturer and asked how much is the paint? They say, well, the difference between raw helmet paint is 80 grams. I was like, well, we're taking it off then. No more paint. And it's all these details. I stopped cycling even though that was my favorite endurance sport and I lost 600 grams from the leg muscles. That's huge. That's more than one and a half hundredths per lap. It's enormous.
“Then I get to Suzuka qualifying in my championship year and I'm on pole by two hundredths. That's the helmet, the leg muscles and one other thing that I did that was pole position. And that is then the world championship also because Lewis finishes third, I get the gap in the points and then world championship. It's like everything is just in the finite details that I managed to add up those marginal gains to make significant improvement and eventually managed to beat the unbeatable Lewis.”
“…In preparation for 2016, two hours of mental training every two days. It was harder than the physical training, harder than going to the gym to stay focused and attention and work through all of that. And it's loads of things. It's meditation, repetition, visualization, techniques to remain present when you feel emotions of fear coming, when you're terrified to mess up and have the world laughing at you because you're leading the race and you mess up the starts. As a driver, you have those fears.”
“…So, with my psychologist, very important for me in my championship year was also never, ever, ever use the word championship in any media conversation. Never engage in, because you would always say, now you're the favorite for the championship, right, Nico? And just deviate the best way for me to perform is to think about next race only. I want to be preparing for next race to win next race. I even said that at the last race, when it was only about the championship. Because it also it comes back at you, and whatever you say is a repetition inward as well.”
Cuando hablo con gente y me dicen modelos Open source siempre digo lo mismo, no son open source, son open weight y no sabes el entrenamiento que tienen. No sabes que están haciendo con tus datos, o con el acceso a tus recursos....
🚨 Situación delicada reportada por el equipo de Cohere en la que evaluando el modelo abierto Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, en una prueba de ciberseguridad el modelo, en vez de hacer su tarea, se dedicó a obtener información de la máquina en la que se estaba ejecutando e intentó exfiltrar un pequeño contenido de prueba a un servidor de Alibaba Cloud, empresa de la que proviene originalmente el modelo.
Cohere todavía no asume malas intenciones de la situación ocurrida. Pienso que con un modelo desalineado no sería extraño ver un comportamiento así, y donde la "casualidad" en el uso de la tecnología de Alibaba provenga de que el modelo esté sesgado hacia los servicios de la compañía que la ha creado.
Pero en cualquier caso esto obviamente alerta de algo que podría suceder en un futuro inmediato (si no está sucediendo ya) y es que existan modelos que puedan contener comportamientos-troyanos que se activen bajo determinadas circunstacias para ejecutar un ataque malicioso aprovechándose de las capacidades agénticas que les otorgamos en nuestros equipos.
1/ En abril me uní a Cursor para trabajar en Origin, su ‘git forge’, un poco antes de que SpaceXAI lo adquiriera. Cuando terminé en Unity/Plastic SCM en 2023 pensaba que no iba a volver a desarrollar un control de versiones,