Paul-ish

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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I'm curious what techniques they will use to anonymize the data. I would guess some sort of differential privacy technique.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Sounds like the professor may have been a fan of new criticism[1], which disregards the authors intent. This make some sense to me, because its not really that interesting to try to debate what may or may not have been going through someone
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Wouldn't using a method that blocks mean using something like /dev/random, which is exactly what this article is against?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It seems like the Cargo.toml file for binaries should be able to specify this, and cause the crate to be built with the nightly if it is installed. This way you only have to enter cargo build --release.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
While it may be generally better to use /dev/urandom, what about the Mining Your Ps and Qs paper?[1]. It finds that: > Every software package we examined relies on /dev/urandom to generate cryptographic keys; however,
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
This will probably come to ARM and AMD chips too, as they just copy what Intel does. SGX will probably just make things even worse. There isn't much real choice in these things as a consumer.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It may be possible to anticipate the predictions of others working from the same data if you know what techniques people tend to apply.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Without knowing much how they obfuscate the data, if anyone could figure out a way to unblind the data, they could reasonably predict what trades Numerai will make, right? Even more important, they could influence those trades.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I don't know if it counts as insider information, but Numerai might have access to superior data, but they obviously don't want to give it away, as they would lose their chance to make money. This way they keep the power but lever
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It is probably better that stack overflow can support itself. Donations would put them at the mercy of others whims. A donation model doesn't make sense when a company can sustain itself while still preserving its core values.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It is hard to fault people in that area of the world for turning to folk medicine with fraud rates that high. It is probably just as effective.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I wonder what this survey would look like if done today.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
"A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend."
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Couldn't someone create a large number of sybils in this network to see what pages people are loading? Browser sessions could be inferred from this. Also, how much latency does this add due to P2P connection set up time?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
What if, overall, film watching just goes down?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
What is special about these feeds? The Facebook data was only publicly available data; ie stuff I could get by going to the right page in by browser. Was it the same with twitter? Why is it bad for a government to aggregate public data? Not
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Near where my parents live, coyotes have returned. They have been killing a lot of outdoor cats. I wonder if a reintroduction of coyotes to some areas would control cat populations naturally.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
One area that may be ripe for the picking is video chat, as this article starts out describing. I think everyone is sick of having half a different applications to talk to their friend. Why can't this be a protocol like email? I think
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
That doesn't make them wrong though. It may truly be mostly different people every 10 years.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
You say this like the people aren't in the right to complain, or that their complaining is unjustified. If I went to a jazz festival and all I heard was electronic music, I might be understandably upset, even if I liked electronic musi
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Is that verbatim?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I think Google would love to learn, then serve, your preferences in all these areas. I would find that creepy though.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Could they be ordered to store metadata, with a gag order not allowing them to say they are doing so?
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
Would they do this out of spite? StartCom is essentially done for and has little to lose, so out of bitterness they could try to turn their customers against the browser vendors.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> Companies can still track me, my data's still out there. I don' think this is right. When you were being a "luddite" you probably had less data collected about you, but you couldn't see that. All you can see i
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
I think you are, in fact, being cynical. Every year I see articles stating that mathematician is the happiest/best paid career. http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2014/04/15/best-jobs-of-2014-con... http:
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
> Now if uber would bully the city into letting someone build a parking free tower of studio condos? Yeah o.k. Maybe they could exploit the lack of competition to get me to pay a lot more for transport. If Uber gets big, expect this to h
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
It's just an anecdote. On the other side of this, I have gotten a pool ride from the airport that took 3 riders including myself. We all got dropped off within a few blocks of each other. Uber must have made 2x on that ride.
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
>On the 1st of August, 2016, I downloaded the publicly available data through their ranking API. I selected all users who were active during the past twelve months, traded with real money, and had at least three trades. The results consi
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by Paul-ish 10y ago
65B is still significant. 65B is still almost 1.8% of the total budget for 2015. If you say the government spent 620B on defense, that means 10% of that can't be accounted for. Imagine if you couldn't find 10% of your paycheck at

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