Majromax

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by Majromax 7y ago
No; the core goal of side-channel-free algorithms (of which constant time algorithms are a subset) is that the instructions executed by the CPU should not depend on secret data. Spinning until a fixed time is reached could conceivably leak
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by Majromax 7y ago
> I thought the main issue was that MS was preinstalling IE and making it a pain to uninstall it. The root issue was that Microsoft preinstalled the (free) Internet Explorer at a time when other web browsers were commercial . Netscape
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Texture is a more informative feature than shape in the datasets used. But the insight is that although both features are informative, classical training approaches result in networks that over-fit on texture information and ignore sha
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by Majromax 7y ago
> More generally speaking, do we believe there's any value in having open platforms with platform-owners who aren't trying to police every single actor using the platform? Amazon's not just an "open platform" her
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Why do people get to patent the products of federal grants? A few reasons: * The core hypothesis behind publicly-funded research is that simply advancing knowledge is a good thing. Patents (versus public domain, versus assigning a pat
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by Majromax 7y ago
If it's impossible to provide human support for a system, and if it's possible to automatically exploit the system to affect a nontrivial fraction of users, then perhaps the system shouldn't have billions of users? There&#x27
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by Majromax 7y ago
> I'd say it's completely in character for Quebec to pass a law like this with no ulterior motives except what's on the box - preventing civil servants from wearing religious symbols. Additionally, Québec is the province i
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Basically, imagine if states could pass temporary laws that were not allowed to be challenged as unconstitutional. For some reason, Canada allows that. One argument in favour is that it preserves the ability to pass emergency acts with
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by Majromax 7y ago
> You keep doing things well, but your competition has a second-mover advantage. They get to work with newer tooling, no legacy codebase, all the benefits of a fresh start. They start to win your customers away from you. ... so you'
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by Majromax 7y ago
> When you do that you now have an aircraft the pilots aren't certified to fly. It would increase risk. But for that increased risk to materialize into harm, the plane would also need to experience an unlikely, near-edge-of-fligh
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Americans will experience 10,948,000 anomalies per year. Or, about 20.8 events per minute. One possibility is that driving is simply too challenging in the general case. Note one of the problems discussed in the article, that self-d
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Based on my reading of the press release, it seemed like the truck was turning across the car's path, which should look like a stationary "bridge" to the model and subsequently ignored. So if I understand you properly, a
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by Majromax 7y ago
> That said, I don't see how the App Store is a monopoly. How would "monopoly" be defined to even formulate a case against Apple? I think the argument would be fairly straightforward: the App Store is the exclusive avenue
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by Majromax 7y ago
> There were multiple failures, and while we pick apart Boeing, we have not done the same to the pilots. At the time of the crash, it appears that the established procedures were insufficient. In particular, the MCAS failure creates a q
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by Majromax 7y ago
> Why don't American's use an "and" here: Doing so is still standard American English. However, headline writing in particular has a tradition of extreme brevity, and this style leaves out conjunctions and adjectives
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by Majromax 8y ago
For wireless devices, bandwidth (and size) directly translates to radio time and power. Alternatively, low bandwidth also allows the use of noisier links, since effective bandwidth is the product of the channel width and SNR margin. The mil
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by Majromax 8y ago
That's interesting to read, since it provides an additional air of credibility to the reported fears. I wish that the Business Insider article had linked or at least mentioned it, but if they did then perhaps "customers are scared
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by Majromax 8y ago
This article appears to be particularly low-effort, designed to engender fear more than enlighten. The core thesis is that Oracle customers fear license audits if they use a non-Oracle cloud platform. On the face of it, that fear seems rea
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by Majromax 8y ago
> I can't imagine what sort of BS patents they were churning out for an engineer to be able to have 2-3 a week. I interpret that part of the question as the program as a whole seeing 2-3 patents per week, spread over the entire e
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by Majromax 8y ago
> And also I would point out that there is a strong survivorship bias in Gall's law. All sustainable complex systems built up incrementally that are still around are by definition an example of success. But we don't actively se
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by Majromax 8y ago
> But in the world of today, where all of those diseases are extremely rare--precisely because of such a huge fraction of the population getting vaccinated in the past--the probability of catching the disease if you aren't vaccinate
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by Majromax 8y ago
> So the simplest reliable implementation is to have only one wave traveling down the pipeline at a time. If we send a wave out, say, once a second, we can wait about one second for it to show up, and otherwise presume that it was lost.
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by Majromax 8y ago
> TL;DR: assuming circular, coplanar orbits, for any planet A, the sun is on average closer to that planet than any other planet B, because planet B spends a lot of time on the other side of the sun from planet A, and given the way orbit
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by Majromax 8y ago
> 2-bit digital audio? Like only four total values of dynamic range total? 4-bit meaning only 16 total possible amplitudes? Is that even physically possible? ;) Surprisingly, yes. With noise shaping ( https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by Majromax 8y ago
Not in closed circles/ellipses. With finite wave amplitudes, a fluid parcel in wave motion experiences Stokes Drift ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_drift ). In water, this effect arises because the fluid is
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by Majromax 8y ago
> Why can't you upload a copy in Institutional Repository and publish it in a journal? Do journals set any rules? Generally, when a researcher publishes a work in a journal, they either assign copyright to the journal or give the jo
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by Majromax 8y ago
Both the seller's expected profit and the buyer's surplus are summed over two periods. The buyer has an expected surplus of 0.25 when the sale is made, but the sale is only made 50% of the time.
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by Majromax 8y ago
> The results of Recht et al. do not show that people are performing validation on the test set. As I read #3, the hypothesis doesn't depend on individual researchers acting unethically by validating against the test set. Instead,
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by Majromax 8y ago
> One thing i’d genuinely like to see more of in the US is easy and sanely priced access to wild game. That could pose a problem with Chronic Wasting Disease ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease ).
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by Majromax 8y ago
Unless there's been an update since EEVBlog #1154, he identified that the faulty part was bad solder on a single chip, but he screwed up the reflow. Presuming nothing else was damaged in the process (such as via a hypothetical power p

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