Weekly Digest #178

Articles

The “it” in AI models is the dataset.

It implies that model behavior is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices. It’s determined by your dataset, nothing else. Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute to approximating that dataset.

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

• Anyone who knows the name of any of your S3 buckets can ramp up your AWS bill as they like.
• Adding a random suffix to your bucket names can enhance security.
• When executing a lot of requests to S3, make sure to explicitly specify the AWS region to avoid additional costs of S3 API redirects

Tutorials

Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience

• hreflang
• translate
• reversed
• controls
• autocomplete

Tools

MemGPT Create LLM agents with long-term memory and custom tools

Scrapegraph-ai Python scraper based on AI

Off-topic

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

The CEO and the Three Envelopes