miniblog.

I'm fascinated to learn that there's a black market for GitHub stars: https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars E.g. they can be financially valuable if you're trying to raise money for your start-up.

I'm fascinated to learn that people are discovering weaknesses in state-of-the-art bots for playing Go, such that a novice player can reliably win: https://goattack.far.ai/human-evaluation This suggests that self-play doesn't always generalise: it's not sufficient to beat earlier versions.

Fascinated (and slightly surprised) that Google found ~50% of security bugs occur in code written in the last 12 months. So maintained code that isn't actively developed is often good!