Jon Olson

I build AI supercomputers @google. Amateur circuit maker (and breaker); sometimes skiier. Opinions are my own.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@TracketPacer Many of the people that I share this with are going to be deeply enraged, and that makes me happy 😁

V.Important Q, though, what's the chocolate bar of choice for OSFP instead of QSFP?

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

We're going to need Mickens to give us an update to The Night Watch. We're going from

I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS.

to

I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE MY TOOLS HAVE DESTROYED THEIR TOOLS WITH THEIR TOOLS.

No comment on how much closer things brings us to "RIVERS OF BLOOD ALL DAY EVERY DAY."

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@rakyll ...and for my next trick, reinventing Kubernetes as a simple agentic loop!

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@puf @the_thagomizer The hardbacks are intended to be ordered chronologically, based on my best interpretation of the relationships between Cryptonomicom, Anathem, FALL, TS, and Snow Crash (TDA is clearly post-SC).

That said, Seveneves feels very out of place.

@nealstephenson thoughts? 😅

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@puf @the_thagomizer Early years for him, but it's a good one.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@TracketPacer Now though, absolutely, yes!

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@TracketPacer This wouldn't have rung true for more until the last year, when I learned how many upper-stack workload failures happen in certain software stacks in the face of one misbehaving L1 electrical channel.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@kellabyte There's a complicated story here, including major Kubernetes as a Service providers not using said storage solution behind the scenes.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

I was never a heavy user of @OpenAI (Gemini caught up quickly enough), but I had been paying them for a "Plus" subscription.

I've stopped that.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@RideoutTim You may want to look into the availability of @HyperinflationTim on various social networks if you want to continue that line.

Should be easy to grab?

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

Whoah, this is well said. Haven't seen filtering golfed down that tight before.

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[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@g0thmath @TheCinesthetic Hard disagree!

All good things come to an end, and they ended it beautifully!

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@TheCinesthetic How I Met Your Mother

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

You know things are bad when the most boring person doing the most boring job for decades has to come out and say, “Stop trying to arrest us for doing math”

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

What have I been up to lately?

Oh, nothing, just working with an amazing team of people across @googlecloud and @nvidia to combine the best of both into this beautiful beast.

I can't wait for you all to meet!

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[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@jessfraz Just wait until you rent a car and then forget to turn off the engine after parking it.

I was halfway through a breakfast before I realized.

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@thockin Ganpati?

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

@jaseeey m

[Jon Olson @jonolson]

Horrible, yes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Taking the liberty of assuming you used the same key --

Enigma works this way (using the key for any given day) provided you also pick the same initial rotor position each time).

In more modern (but still outdated) history, RC4 also has this property. The same is true of any block cipher operated in ECB mode (don't do this) or counter mode with a fixed initialization vector (don't do this either).

CBC mode (again with a constant IV) has the interesting property that the ciphertext would be identical up until the block with the diff and then highly divergent thereafter.

Modern schemes intentionally avoid this property by using large random or pseudo-random initialization vectors and by rotating keys frequently (often as part of some broader key agreement protocol).