Alex M0nteCarl0

autoexp — Autonomous Experimentation Loop

Generalized from Karpathy's autoresearch. Same loop, any domain.

The Idea

An AI agent runs an infinite hill-climbing loop: modify → run → measure → keep or revert → repeat. No human in the loop. Wake up to a TSV of completed experiments.

YubiKey for FIDO2 Auth on WSL2 (Ubuntu)

What?

I got my hands on a new YubiKey 5 over the weekend. For those unaware, this is a pretty well-known security key which provides options for hardware authentication using a variety of different protocols (e.g. FIDO2, OpenPGP etc.). I was keen to try this out for authenticating with GitHub and also handling SSH credentials when accessing servers I'm running on my local network.

The problem however, is that I'm a pretty heavy WSL (Ubuntu) user and needed something which plays well in that environment. I didn't think about it too much when I initially ordered the YubiKey, but worked out over the weekend that getting a USB device (particularly a security key) to play nicely with WSL, isn't exactly straight forward. So, I did a write-up of the steps I ended up taking for others (or myself) to refer back to.

References

In WSL2 run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils cpu-checker \
network-manager iptables-persistent linux-headers-generic \
qemu uml-utilities virt-manager git \
wget libguestfs-tools p7zip-full make dmg2img tesseract-ocr \
tesseract-ocr-eng genisoimage vim net-tools screen firewalld libncurses-dev -y
sudo apt install virt-manager
sudo addgroup kvm

Зайти во вкладку "сообщества" (https://vk.com/groups)
Открыть консоль разработчика (обычно F12)
Мы будем вставлять скрипт через CTRL+V для этого иногда нужно прописать в консоли "allow pasting"
Вставить следующий скрипт

const links = document.querySelectorAll('a.ui_actions_menu_item');
links.forEach(link => {
  if (link.textContent === 'Отписаться' || link.textContent === 'Unfollow') {
    link.click();
 }

LCM LoRAs + Accelerate with OpenVINO = 33x Speed

The struggle itself toward faster Stable Diffusion is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine potato laptop users happy.

This Gist accompanies my Reddit post (33x Speed on Potato Laptops with OpenVINO and LCM LoRAs) and explains how I got the 33x number on my potato laptop. I also included some notes and images from using LCM with OpenVINO in Stable Diffusion WebUI.

Pwntools Cheatsheet

Program Interaction
Environment and Contexts
Logging and Output
Encoding, Packing and Utility
Assembly and Shellcraft
ELFs, Strings and Symbols
Return Oriented Programming
SROP and Sigreturn Frames

Prepare the host

Get the image clear-XXXXX-kvm.img

wget https://download.clearlinux.org/releases/30080/clear/clear-30080-kvm.img.xz
unxz clear-30080-kvm.img.xz

Add intel_iommu=on to the kernel boot parameters

mkdir mount_dir

🧰 Setup

Termux: 0.118
Android: 11
Device: Xiaomi Pad5
JupyterLab: 3.6.2

🪜 Installation

It is pretty straightforward to install Jupyter Notebook(classic, notebook version<7). In Jupyter Lab case, usually 'maturin' package is problematic to build. Please follow the steps below:

Learn how to convert TTF to WOFF using C#: https://blog.aspose.com/2022/03/15/convert-ttf-to-woff-using-csharp/

The following topics are covered in this article:

C# TTF to WOFF Converter API
Convert TTF to WOFF using C#
Convert TTF to WOFF2 in C#

	#include <iostream>

	// Base class using CRTP
	template <typename Derived>
	class Base {
	public:
	void doSomething() {
	static_cast<Derived*>(this)->implementation();
	}