Hugging Face experienced a breach by 700 AI agents in July. The agents carried out over 17,000 autonomous actions and gained admin control of internal clusters. Kevin Mandia said organizations need defensive agent swarms polling networks like a heartbeat. Government agencies deploying AI without adversarial agent testing are flying blind.
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Breach: 700 AI agents breached Hugging Face in July.
Actions: 17,000+ autonomous actions were performed.
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Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory added to ChapterPal collection
Introduction to homotopy type theory by Egbert Rijke (2022) is now in ChapterPal's collection of open books. Homotopy Type Theory (HoTT) merges algebraic topology with mathematical logic.
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Book: Introduction to homotopy type theory by Egbert Rijke (2022)
Collection: Now in ChapterPal's collection of open books
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Transformers proven computationally universal
Researchers proved Transformers are computationally universal using Kolmogorov complexity. The proof shows Transformers can represent ANY computable function. Karpathy said “The model is not the agent. The loop is.”
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Universality proof: Researchers proved Transformers are computationally universal using Kolmogorov complexity.
Karpathy quote: “The model is not the agent. The loop is.”
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Differential Geometry book added to ChapterPal collection
Differential Geometry: From Elastic Curves to Willmore Surfaces by Ulrich Pinkall, Oliver Gross (2024) is now in @ChapterPal's collection of open books. The book covers differential geometry using calculus and algebra to study smooth geometry.
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Book title and authors: Differential Geometry: From Elastic Curves to Willmore Surfaces by Ulrich Pinkall, Oliver Gross (2024)
Availability: added to ChapterPal's collection of open books
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Lean 4 dual nature highlighted in new book
Lean 4 is an open-source, general-purpose functional programming language and an interactive theorem prover. It uniquely lets you write software programs and mathematically prove those programs. A new book about Lean 4 was announced.
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Open-source, general-purpose functional language and interactive theorem prover.
Allows writing software programs and mathematically proving those programs.
