EthanHeilman

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by EthanHeilman 5mo ago
I'm not arguing against anything you have said, but there is an important connection here that I want to make between disillusionment and funding. > Besides the people in this thread bemoaning the state of research funding, internat
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
r/K selection theory but for protocols? This unofficial Bitcoin roadmap and the official ETH (Ethereum) PQ roadmap present two very different philosophies. * As one would expect the ETH PQ roadmap is ambitious bordering on hubristic. I
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
> but some portion of folks can attest to their ownership. How? Alice pay's Bob 1 BTC at random address 0x1234. Someone shows up and says, I own that address and here is signature proving it. But the signature scheme is broken so an
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
> In practice there are very few bitcoin outputs that aren't linked to an offline identity and most users could easily produce a proof of ownership. Any who is going to in charge of reading that proof of identity and moving the coin
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
That is not what I am hearing from people working on CRQC. A prediction of a CRQC with 10% by 2030 was made by own of the top experts in this field. 2045 used to be the pessimistic outlook by experts with a bunch of experts predicting earli
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
> fork the chain at a snapshot before the attack, patch the protocol, and call that Bitcoin? It won't work. The only way to authenticate who ones what coins is with signatures. If the signature algorithm is broken, you can't te
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
> 2) to provide objective proof for the true transaction history, anchored in energy expenditure. Why do you need this if you are willing to trust other people not to steal coins or lie? > 1) to fairly distribute all coins Same questi
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
In this case, it seems like we are rolling dice but no one is quiet sure if the dice are fair, how many sides it has and what numbers are written on the dice. The only thing I am confident in is if it the bigger the fire, the faster the wor
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by EthanHeilman 6mo ago
"A CRQC is an existential threat to Bitcoin (you might believe this is very low-likehood). Your measurement of this threat should literally be: (A) How likely you think it is a CRQC appears by a given time, multiplied by (B) How likely
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Nash Equilibrium for Terminal Maneuvers(r6.ca)
2 points by EthanHeilman 6mo ago|0 comments
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by EthanHeilman 7mo ago
> See a pattern here? Each failure from a different root cause. So multiple unsolved failure modes, not iteration. It has never reached orbit, never caught a ship, never demonstrated orbital refueling. Wouldn't it be worse if it was
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by EthanHeilman 7mo ago
Not if the bigger models have diminishing returns. Lets say you figure out a way to reduce RAM requirements 100X, but 2x increasing RAM usage by 2x only gets you a 1% increase in effectiveness and 3x does not get you any noticeable increase
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by EthanHeilman 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be, defender reveals everything and attacker chooses best strategy. 1. The defender could use both electronic and physical decoys, use air and sea mobile platforms that are always in motion and are difficult to track
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The Game of Terminal Maneuvers(ethanheilman.com)
1 points by EthanHeilman 7mo ago|0 comments
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by EthanHeilman 7mo ago
Seriously? I worked at startups and research institutions. We trained people on interviews. I know Google used to invest quite a bit on interview training.
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by EthanHeilman 7mo ago
Complete agreement. "Excellent answer, that is what I would do as well, now what if we wanted to build it in-house?"
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by EthanHeilman 8mo ago
How likely is that they dropped this now to push the news story about quitGPT out of the headlines?
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
If Tesla has lost the advantage in battery tech, that is unfortunate and speaks poorly to Tesla's long term strategy. Reclaiming this lead would be an important strategic goal and I disagree with that not being prioritized. > Why? O
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
> Tesla has 4 different, 4 person cars. It's redundant. You are spot on, it makes sense to have the Model 3 (economy sedan) and Model y (upmarket crossover SUV). My question here is why did Tesla have four 4-person cars in the first
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
EVs are a solved problem, but as amelius notes the real tech is the battery. Tesla + Panasonic has a built in advantage in terms of battery manufacturing. Tesla has a massive amount of capital, if they put it into reducing and scaling manuf
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Hop: A Modern Transport and Remote Access Protocol [pdf](zakird.com)
1 points by EthanHeilman 9mo ago|0 comments
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
Thanks for your comment, I know the ionosphere is used in Electronic Warfare but I didn't realize it was so limited in frequency. Is there really is no way to reflect signals off the ionosphere out of phase so after reflecting they int
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
Yes, but it is more difficult than jamming a typical radio antenna because the starlink uses a directed beam rather than a omnidirectional radio broadcast. This either requires enormous amounts of power, targeting the satellite itself with
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
I haven't seen an AI successfully write a full feature to an existing codebase without substantial help, I don't think we are there yet. > The only question is how long it takes to get there. This is the question and I would te
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by EthanHeilman 9mo ago
Even if you are going green field, you need to build it the way it is likely to be used based a having a deep familiarity with what that customer's problems are and how their current workflow is done. As much as we imagine everything i
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by EthanHeilman 10mo ago
Science works better with collaboration. If China and Europe have to take up the slack from a self-inflicted wound to US research, science as a whole suffers. There is far more science to do than scientists and when science funding gets can
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Why Obvious Lies Make Perfect Propaganda [video](youtube.com)
2 points by EthanHeilman 10mo ago|0 comments
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by EthanHeilman 10mo ago
With Trump it appears a window is closing on the development of important technologies and research. I doubt we will enter a new dark age, but in some areas, progress is likely to slow, which in turn will be used as evidence that it isn&#x2
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by EthanHeilman 1y ago
LD_PRELOAD is so useful for non-malicious stuff that I hope it doesn't get a reputation as a bad thing to find on your system. That being said, I agree with you and also disagree. From a defenders perspective, you have lost if an attac
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by EthanHeilman 1y ago
> The slowing pace of improvement at the bleeding edge of generative AI is one sign that LLMs are not living up to their hype. Arguably a more important indication is the rise of smaller, nimbler alternatives, which are finding favour in

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