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ubc '25. emergent ventures, z fellows.

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Kevin Liu
3 months
built a small raytracer in rust! very cool that you can model realistic light interactions in only a couple hundred loc
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4 months
stargazing @ treehacks
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2 months
4 hour long movies should be normalized
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6 months
got my tn visa!! Next stop: SF
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4 months
there's so much untapped potential for ai agents on CTF challenges, especially in web and cryptography. imagine a system that finds relevant writeups, searches through papers, automatically debugs failed exploits - it would instantly solve all easy-medium challenges
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9 months
introducing (Ch)eetCode – the easiest way to get past those pesky technical interviews! open leetcode, toggle the extension, and watch the LLM breeze through the problem as you pretend to type your solution. disclaimer: please do not use this in real life 🙃
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6 months
Bumblebee: a tiny vision transformer for image classification that runs locally in the browser with WASM! Built this over the past few nights: huge shout out to @karparthy 's tutorials, the Rust book, and @huggingface 's Candle framework. Try it out:
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5 months
completely mindblown by midjourney v6. in love with how incredibly well it captures auteur styles and aesthetics
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7 months
working on a small lexer and parser for vim! Think regex101, but for building and understanding vim commands
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7 months
@itsandrewgao lol reminds me of that model finetuned on 100k+ slack messages
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7 months
@immad - cheap (< $100) and efficient automated penetration testing. Typical security firm tests take weeks and cost more than $10k -- we're building semantic agents/algorithms that replace manual analysis effort with more robust and efficient detection.
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5 months
Picked up this gem yesterday
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5 months
some thoughts: - "... by Wong Kar-Wai" emulates the neon + hazy nighttime style quite well - v6 generates very photorealistic images! had to intentionally specify blurring and haziness - does a good job at generating psuedo-chinese characters
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6 months
@huggingface Currently achieves 56.11% accuracy on CIFAR-10 -- will improve significantly after I make the model (much) larger and train on a good GPU
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4 months
@moyix Yes! RsaCtfTool is a great tool, but often the challenge is slightly modified so the exact attack doesn’t work. I’m planning to use the underlying source code as an exploit library - letting the LLM decide which attack code to use and adapt the script correspondingly
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3 months
@aheze0 @VCBrags LOL x to doubt
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8 months
didn't realize how much I missed building side projects until recently. stay tuned✨
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3 months
code: book:
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5 months
@_jzhao congrats!!
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6 months
@inthecosmicdust thanks jacqline!
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Kevin Liu
5 months
also played with image/text to video: - runway does well for backgrounds with minimal movement (see below). for more complex scenes, there's weird morphing and distortion of objects - pika has the same issues as runway but is less obvious very excited to try out lumiere! 2024…
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5 months
@matthew_j_l just started reading it a few days ago! I really like the idea of examining a system's high-level structure and inferring behaviour based solely on the patterns that those loops and arrows form -- reminds me a lot of graph theory & isomorphisms
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6 months
@rod007vrr I feel like most people never realize how attached they are until they're forced to disconnect - I wonder how much it's affected our appreciation of just living in the moment
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Kevin Liu
6 months
@matthew_j_l damn now i want to learn how shaders work
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4 months
@moyix follow along with the code:
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4 months
@moyix Awesome thanks! Will do some benchmarking soon
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4 months
I'm experimenting with this for cryptography; the goal is to reach 100% solve rate on CryptoHack. Starting with the RSA category: a few challenges need particular insights to exploit, but I'm quite confident in GPT-4's reasoning abilities here. cc @moyix
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Kevin Liu
5 months
@kasratweets beautiful piece! I think we often don't fully realize how much agency we have in our lives -- you can really just make things happen and live out your "real life" in the present
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9 months
check out the project here: !
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6 months
@RonNachum Most things relying on modern pre-quantum encryption - encrypted messages, emails, video chats, …
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4 months
@hsinleiwang congrats! love the design
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6 months
@ekzhang1 What do the sessions usually look like? Unfortunately not in NY so I've been meaning to follow along online
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Kevin Liu
5 months
@lnofx similar to double vigenere cipher! you have two keys (melodies) of different fixed lengths that repeat in cycles to produce randomness. works best when lengths are relatively prime!
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2 months
@soren_iverson @JoshhEarle How do intuition and taste differ?
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5 months
@_neelr_ let’s goo
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Kevin Liu
10 months
does anyone have good resources summarizing the state of js and what frameworks/libraries like next.js, astro, svelte, etc accomplish? (for someone who’s worked primarily with vanilla js and React)
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Kevin Liu
6 months
@_yashkarthik what's the coolest application of linalg you've used so far?
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Kevin Liu
10 months
Building a web browser from scratch with @BrowserBook ! Just finished CSS parsing and the browser chrome:
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4 months
@moyix Also, do you have the source code for these challenges? Would be curious to see how a cryptography-specialized agent would perform on them
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4 months
@moyix I’ve noticed GPT-4 is quite poor at general mathematical reasoning and gets caught up in irrelevant challenge details. That said, I think with the right system and agent behaviour we can solve most of these easier challenges
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10 months
@BrowserBook next up: support basic CSS like margin/padding so the browser can render acid1 ()
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3 months
code: book:
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