Sarthak Munshi

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Sarthak is a computer security researcher interested in applied cryptography, secure protocols, and machine learning security.

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2024-12-15 • python text generation llama 3 steering vectors

The text discusses the concept of steering vectors in the context of large language models like Llama-3, and how to create and apply steering vectors to guide the model's outputs in specific directions. It provides a detailed walk...

2024-08-18 •

The text discusses the implications of AI features in the latest smartphones and the challenge of proving the provenance of non-AI generated images. It raises philosophical questions about authentic visual representation and the r...

2024-03-02 •

Sagemaker studio notebooks use conda-forge and come pre-installed with CUDA 11.2. However, newer features in LoRA, QLoRA, and other quantization-based libraries don’t run on it. The process to upgrade to CUDA 11.8 is confusing and...

2023-09-26 •

The text discusses the concept of Kolmogorov Complexity and its application in determining the randomness of a string. It explains how the length of the shortest program outputting a string defines its complexity and how this conc...

2021-02-01 •

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2020-01-10 •

The text discusses the AWS WAF and the gotchas associated with it. It highlights issues such as 8KB payload limit, replacement discrepancy, migration caveats, false positives, and bad parsing. It also mentions the cost implication...

2018-10-12 •

The text is a checklist for securing infrastructure, meant to serve as a checklist for interview prep. It includes network segmentation, identity management, data protection, and security operations.

2016-02-15 •

The text explains the concepts of entropy, cross-entropy, and Kullback-Leibler divergence in the context of information theory and statistics. It discusses how these concepts are used to optimize data representation, model trainin...