Had many hilarious anecdotes to share with you today but work got in the way, instead here’s this week’s whites

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ANZ235>237-256-273-230245-
/O.NEW.KBOX.MA.W.0003.250323T0155Z-250323T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Special Marine Warning
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
955 PM EDT Sat Mar 22 2025

The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a

* Special Marine Warning for...
Block Island Sound...
Coastal Waters from Montauk NY to Marthas Vineyard extending out to
20 nm South of Block Island...
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/f/2025-O-NEW-KBOX-MA-W-0003_2025-03-23T01:55Z

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Flood Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
254 AM EDT Tue Mar 18 2025

...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in
Massachusetts...Connecticut...

Connecticut River At Northampton affecting Hampshire and Hampden
Counties.

Connecticut River At Thompsonville affecting Hartford and Hampden
Counties.

...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in
Connecticut...

Connecticu https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/river/?wfo=BOX

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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
1129 PM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
A strong cold front will bring heavy rain and gusty southerly
wind gusts tonight into Monday morning, with rain lingering into
Monday night across SE New England. Mainly dry and mild weather
returns Tuesday into Thursday. Another frontal system will
likely bring a period of showers sometime late Thursday into
Friday, po https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202503170329-KBOX-FXUS61-AFDBOX

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#FotoVorschlag
'paket'

ein paket kurz nach der öffnung. natürlich sitzt eine katze drin, war ja klar, ne?

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AFDBOX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
1011 AM EDT Tue Mar 11 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
Breezy and unseasonably mild conditions today ahead of cold
front, then chillier conditions arrive Wednesday and Thursday
with a period of light rain/snow showers possible Wednesday
night into early Thursday. Milder air begin to return across the
interior Friday and elsewhere this weekend when 60+ degrees are
possibl https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202503111411-KBOX-FXUS61-AFDBOX

I'm now pretty convinced that box AI does (at least sometime) leak information.

A copy of the two chats and my test file is at https://mvpa.blogspot.com/2025/03/fun-with-box-ai-information-leakage.html

Evidence: in session 1 with a file I told box AI that the "white" subjects were "silly" and that the ages were given in days. In session 2 (four days later, different computer, different network) I started a new box AI session with the file, and it answered "how old are the silly subjects in years?" with the "white" subject ID codes, and converted the ages from days to years without being given those details again.

The box AI chats do not reproduce exactly every time, even with the same questions about the same file. But that it ever "remembered" things like "silly = white" across sessions (and users, in tests with colleagues) is deeply concerning in my context of protecting participant privacy.

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AFDBOX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
356 PM EST Wed Mar 5 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
A frontal system brings a period of soaking rains, brief strong
southerly wind gusts, and unseasonably mild temperatures later
today into early Thursday morning. Then a strong but dry cold
front brings more seasonable temperatures, but also a period of
strong northwesterly wind gusts Thursday night through Friday.
Tre https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202503052056-KBOX-FXUS61-AFDBOX

Here's an update on my attempt to determine how concerned to be about the privacy and security of our data now that my employer added Box AI.

I'm most worried about information "leaking" from one AI session to another, so decided to test for that. Spoiler: info did seem to be retained over time and users.

For the tests I used a text file with an interview_age column in months, though that it's months isn't given in the document.

In the first box AI chat, when I asked "how old are the participants in years?", as expected, it reported the values as given in the interview_age column (e.g., that one participant was 458 years old). I then told the AI that "the ages in the
document are in months. how old are they in years?", after which it (reasonably) divided by 12 to convert.

The test was whether, in later sessions, box AI would "remember" that the age column was in months and report the age in years after dividing by 12 without being told to do so.

In our tests, that is what happened: the box AI usually converted the ages correctly first try in later sessions, both when I queried the same document from different computers (my wustl.box account but on different days and networks), and when two colleagues opened their first AI session with a newly-shared copy of the document.

It'll be interesting to hear what our IT folks think, but I am getting less and less confident in box for sensitive data.

@sugar Candy bit my wee wee and has being condemned to the bad loli box.

she is unrepentant

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Thought it was a good day to wear white, no reason, just a snap choice as I was rushing to get ready for work this morn

Anyone know about box AI and sensitive documents? I am dubious that it is secure (or useful), but recently WashU enabled it.

After a few messaging rounds trying to get details about what the Box AI button does, the wustl IT folks sent this: "Yes, the HIPAA protections are still in place with the BOX-AI application.

Box AI securely engages an external AI provider to compute embeddings from these text chunks and the user’s question. Advanced embeddings models, such as Azure OpenAI’s ada-02, are utilized for this purpose. Let’s peek behind the curtain on this step, and see what all is done as part of Computing embeddings:

a. Secure data transfer: The embeddings computation involves an end-to-end encrypted network API call to one of Box supported AI providers (GCP, Azure, based on which AI model is being used).

b. In-memory processing: The AI provider processes the data in memory without storing any data in logs or writing it to disk, preventing any permanent record of the document. We take precautions to ensure our providers do not save the data during processing. [...]

c. Rapid processing: [...] after which the query, the answer and any context from the document is purged from the AI provider’s memory.

d. Data use assurance: AI model providers never use the customer data for training any of their models nor for logging any information."

Should I be relieved and tell my colleagues box AI is ok? Or move all our sensitive data from box?