Antonio Cheong

Hacker, engineer, and insomniac | 44k+ stars on GitHub | Founder @join_ef S26 cohort in San Francisco

❤️ Open source, bug bounties, and privacy research

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[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

Hello world. It's been a while. You may know me from the old revChatGPT and other reverse engineering efforts. I'm finally back to building full time and have just flown into San Francisco over from Cardiff last week. If anyone is around and wanna chat, lmk.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@charles_irl almost impossible to find in corporate or commercial world anymore. open-source is probably the last bastion.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

I think the next step is ambience. Everything is AI until it becomes reliable and invisible. I want my AI to be out of sight, like how I don't need to my trash folder automatically clears out files older than 30 days.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

AI so far is an orgy of stuff by geeks for geeks, and for everyone else there's a chat box. Whoever figures out a better way will make OpenAI and Anthropic look puny.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

When I was 17, I learned about fine tuning LLMs like GPT-J and Neo, and did try to train an LLM from scratch. Didn't go anywhere with it though.

I think rather than pointing people at a direction, persistence is much more important. A person who used to ask me very basic questions about how fine tuning works, but has now stuck to the field for 4 years, is now a researcher at Anthropic, while I barely retain any of the techniques and whatnot because I never persisted and went on to do other things.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@cornsouppu 明日は月曜日

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

Bug has been publicly known since mid July, and only patched earlier this month, and a bunch of people still haven't patched their systems.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

RCE on MacOS dropped. Surprised there weren't any POCs that actually did the RCE.
Everyone just doing file reads and calling it a day (maybe since Claude didn't let them). Well, here you go, a real POC.

https://t.co/D8Eb85H7lP

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@Trace_Cohen And I think most people will willingly give their data to AI, otherwise someone else will and their narrative will become the accepted truth with the masses

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@philhie Everyone talks as though tokens and attention is free. Unless you have a digital twin of yourself with the same context and decision making, attention will always be the bottleneck imo

[LOLUET @VXILXLIX]

人生でもらって一番よかったプレゼント、
熱さまシートのアイマスクです。

このアイマスクつけて寝ると、目を開けたくても何も見えないのでそのまま永遠に寝られるんですが、
一回外したあと「もう一回寝たいな……でも熱さまシート……1枚100円……」となって諦めて起きられます。

不眠症に☆超おすすめ☆

庶民にはちょっと悲しい価格帯です。
坂田銀時の「300円やるから……」がなぜあんなに胸に刺さる金額なのか、今ならわかる。

こんなふざけた商品が1枚100円……？
舐めるな……
起きなきゃいけなくても意地でも寝てやる……

ありがとう。

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@KimZetter Why would the CIA do that? Nepo, surely?

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@Techmeme Is this the new hiring pipeline?

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

Currently working on one. I've got pretty bad ADHD and always forget about various things I promised I'd look into or send. Reverse engineering all the things to integrate into a knowledge graph to build a second brain that helps keep track of my commitments (and does some of them for me). Most over-engineered todo bot

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@ChatGPT Using ChatGPT for communication is the fast way out of any friend group

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@Tritewalk @cryptobuilder_ I used Bluebubbles back in the olden days. Should still work

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@OpenAI Can't call what is not ZDR, ZDR. This is why you can only ever trust open models

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

Moving from Cardiff to the US, it is insane to me how normalized driving is. I miss when I could just walk, take the bus, or hop on a train to anywhere in the country. LA is particularly bad. SF is better with Lime scooters and the BART, but the public transport is much more unreliable and unsafe.

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@VXILXLIX ショート動画とか切り抜きでアニメを消費して、実際に本編を観ようとすらしない人を見ると、余計にイラッとする。

[Antonio Cheong @acheong08]

@VXILXLIX ショート動画とか切り抜きでアニメを消費して、実際に本編を観ようとすらしない人を見ると、余計にイラッとする。

[LOLUET @VXILXLIX]

「OPを飛ばす」なんて概念もなくて、見たくなければチャンネルを変えるくらいしかなかった頃にアニメを見ていたのって、今思うとすごくロマンチックだったな〜

OPの演出に力が入っている作品も多かったし、流れていくスタッフの名前を最後まで眺めたり、曲を覚えて一緒に歌ったりしてた

そのアニメを思い出せば「このOP！」って曲がすぐ浮かんだし、どこかで偶然流れてきた時に「あ、この曲！」ってなる感覚も、今でも鮮明に覚えてる

今はそういう経験がずいぶん減ってしまって、同じような力をまだ持っているのは映画くらいなのかなと思うと、少し寂しい