Estragon

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by Estragon 14y ago
The published social science they have produced so far is unimpressive, though. I attended a talk by a Facebook Data Group employee a little while ago, and it was a bit sad.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Now you mention it, it's kind of surprising that they don't offer premium accounts with no ads and strong privacy guarantees. I might even get back on facebook if they did that.
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by Estragon 14y ago
This reminds me of something I've been wondering about since the Bitcoinica heist: how do people usually set up secure offline backups which can't be erased using the credentials on the backed-up server? I would probably do something with
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by Estragon 14y ago
Thanks. Interesting.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Some people have made careers out of setting up incentive structures like this. Check out Aubrey Daniels.[1] He has a consulting company based around it.[2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Daniels#Discussion_of_Pe... [2] http:/
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by Estragon 14y ago
How is a robot used to scam a search engine? Are they stealing your results on a per-search basis?
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by Estragon 14y ago
> There are a lot of things I don't understand about > China's economy I found the videos which the following blog post is based on quite illuminating. Unfortunately, the videos seem to have been taken down. http://asia
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by Estragon 14y ago
> You don't need armor and life, if you kill in one hit! This is why the approach is working for you: you're doing simple stuff.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Video games? What happened to building the space needle with Google? :-)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Wow, I missed that when I read it. Jason is an excellent writer/marketer.
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by Estragon 14y ago
With two or three cameras and a much beefier processor you could probably do a pretty good job.
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by Estragon 14y ago
The trouble with defense in depth is that you have to admit your existing defenses may be inadequate. I can see how that could be politically difficult in a large organization.
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by Estragon 14y ago
So where is the list? I'd like to see whether I'm on it.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Potential productive responses are detailed in the OP.
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by Estragon 14y ago
How do you weaponize a GPU?
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by Estragon 14y ago
> I think that there are way worse dangers than "humanoid bombs" Yes, I am much more concerned about the scope for ubiquitous surveillance and systematic domination that even fairly modest gains in AI will allow. Something alon
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by Estragon 14y ago
The intro video would benefit by demonstrating this. I had the same question.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Thanks.
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by Estragon 14y ago
The results will still be conditionally independent given the assignments, which is all you need to use the counts for estimation of a binomial .
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by Estragon 14y ago
Where does this term "lambda users" come from?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Congratulations, guys.
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by Estragon 14y ago
I'm not the one making extraordinary claims.
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by Estragon 14y ago
That doesn't make it any less suspect.
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by Estragon 14y ago
1800 cases of counterfeit parts, not 1800 cases of maliciously designed parts. There could well be malice involved, but the vast majority of those cases were almost certainly economically motivated.
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by Estragon 14y ago
The fact that he's pleading for money as he makes these claims makes me suspicious of them. He needs to provide more specific information and evidence.
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by Estragon 14y ago
Is his rss feed broken for anyone else?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Human Smoke is brilliant. I had no idea that Roosevelt was a virulent anti-semite [1] or that starvation through blockade was a key part of allied strategy.[2] And TIL that between 500 000 and 3 000 000 Germans are estimated to have died
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by Estragon 14y ago
> I'd prefer to use Python rather than having to > internalize Javascript syntax You might want to check out < http://pyjs.org/> . It translates python code into javascript for execution client-side. I haven't
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by Estragon 14y ago
It's already well and truly off the ground.
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Bitcoinica lost customer database, has no up to date record of trading balances(bitcointalk.org)
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