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To prevent similar incidents from reoccurring in the future, Cloudflare has improved credential logging and verification and now mandates the use of automated deployment tooling to avoid human errors.

The company is also updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) to require dual validation for high-impact actions like credential rotation and plans to enhance health checks for faster root cause detection.

Cloudflare’s R2 service suffered another 1-hour long outage in February, which was also caused by a human error.

A couple weeks ago, I participated in the Mercor x Etched x Cognition Hackathon. The theme of the hackathon was “inference-time compute”— and this is what I worked on for 24 hours, with some added rigor, visualizations, and analysis.

You can view the original work here and the code here — my contribution is the hallucinations section for both.

Thanks to Allison Lim and Vijay Kumaravelrajan (alphabetical order) for helping me edit this!

Here I interview Brian Cutter in person to talk about arguments against physicalism. Do they work?

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OUTLINE

0:00 Intro.
0:15 Physicalism.
3:10 Non-physicalism.
5:50 Many-subjects argument.
30:20 Sensory awareness arguments.
36:31 Conceivability arguments.
51:48 Inconceivability argument.
56:58 Knowledge argument.
1:08:07 Explanatory gap arguments.
1:12:51 Arguments from personal identity.
1:20:07 Mereological nihilism argument.
1:28:38 Just too different!
1:32:07 Other arguments.
1:33:06 The best argument against dualism?
1:46:17 Conclusion.

RESOURCES.