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by Phemist 6y ago
One possible way is looking at the list of editors of the Journal, and seeing if the researchers in question have back-mentioned that Journal on their CV (or personal homepage). The fact that researchers/peers in a field are willing to
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I would happily recommend you to read "Hallucinations" by Oliver Sacks. This book is not about UFO sightings, but about how ordinary people can have wild hallucinations. For example, an elderly woman who would regularly have very
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This feels luke a strawman example. I feel like list comprehension results in a much more readable example here. I think, at least. > all(func3(a) for h,w in zip(a,b) for a in func1(h,w) if func2(a))
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by Phemist 6y ago
I wish I could contribute more generally, but I think the PyPy project is a great cause and will put down a small amount to help with this. I've come to the realization that, to get more performance out of python, the most pythonic way
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> I wonder if GPT3 could be used to infer reacted text prompted by the surrounding article..? Generally, I would assume that the part of the text with the most entropy (redacted nouns and their adjectives) would be especially hard for a
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by Phemist 6y ago
You raise a point that strikes me as odd, but perhaps I am not up to date on what is considered FOSS nowadays. In what way will this lead to `truly` FOSS? Sure, the URL shortener project is open-source, but neither Github Pages nor Github I
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by Phemist 6y ago
Bluetooth and location services being bundled is a policy decision by Google. If one has a database filled with historical correlations between bluetooth devices "in range" and GPS coordinates, it is possible to get a pretty accur
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by Phemist 6y ago
Reminds me of the scene in the series "Lilyhammer", where <spoiler> a similar literal interpretation of the ESTA check list, i.e. a Norwegian police officer answering "Yes" to the question if he has ever been in c
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by Phemist 6y ago
That also puts you in a morass of discussions you don't want to be in. The link between the car and the legend might be problematic because it perpetuates the idea of the "Hollanders" being the only Dutchmen. For the same rea
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Probably because the joke does not translate so well into Dutch. The translation of "The Flying Dutchman" is "De Vliegende Hollander", so there is no obvious place to put a car pun (but maybe someone more creative than m
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by Phemist 6y ago
Slightly off-topic, but related because this happens to me on wireguard VPN through their (excellent) app. It seems like the VPN connection is not shared to devices if I allow them to connect to my phone's hotspot. This is annoying, be
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by Phemist 6y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the write-up. In the field of Biometrics we often use the library BOB to compute scores like AUC's and EER's, or other measures over stuff like DET curves. For some practical work I was doing, BOB (and SK l
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by Phemist 6y ago
I'm guessing many websites are identifiable by which patterns of libs and specific versions they will force you to cache. One SiteA would then be able to tell that a user visited a SiteB (which, depending on the website, may or may not
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by Phemist 6y ago
Sounds like you had a bit more than a micro-dose, but interesting way of applying these doses!
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Yes, my wording was a bit sloppy, apologies! Should be: the government has made plans to ... Interesting document! There's a lot of information in here that I never really realized. Looks like on any given day, you have an opportunity
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by Phemist 6y ago
Also noteworthy is that the Dutch government has decided to seriously limit the amount of ads on NPO TV channels and websites. No ads before 8 PM on TV, no ads at all on the websites.
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Yes! It also solves one of my pet peeves, really a first world problem. Watching 16:9, 1080p videos full-screen on my 32:9 screen lags my PC hard, on basically every video streaming site. The big black bars on either side of the video are a
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by Phemist 6y ago
Nice! I was going to fiddle with a greasemonkey script, but this does just what I need. Thanks a lot!
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by Phemist 6y ago
Slightly off-topic: I had no idea opening a youtube link with /embed in the right part the URL would make the video go to full screen in the browser window, and thus get rid of the UI noise that is youtube in 2020. I should make this h
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by Phemist 6y ago
Yeah, I understand the problem. I feel like all these UI design decisions are mostly due to a lack of recognition that language-use is not binary. Auto-correct used to be absolutely unusable if you mixed typing in multiple languages on your
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by Phemist 6y ago
Also, pleaassee allow us to set the language of the text-to-speech manually on android without having to switch the lange of the whole OS. In the Netherlands, you are no longer allowed to hold your phone in your hand or look at it while rid
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by Phemist 7y ago
Off-topic: I can't help but be nosy and check the https version of your page. You seem to be serving a cert with CN=albertstreetantiquescentre.co.uk. Might want to get this looked at :) Edit: Interesting, https://jdebp.uk h
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There is strong selective pressure on criminals to become good at computers though, more so than the general population.
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I also have full access to basically all journals and recently surveyed well over 500 papers in my field of research. Sci-hub was an indispensable tool for this, because it provides a consistent user interface to download _all_ papers. I wa
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One thing I don't understand is why we are calling these patterns _dark_ rather than _manipulative_, or even just calling it straight up manipulation? I feel like manipulation has a clear meaning for a lot of people, which I would defi
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Haha. I've been playing around with (and written about) the idea of a new set of authentication factor categories. I think part of the public perception problem is the "things you have, know and are" slogan of authentication
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Biometrics as an authentication factor suffers from a "weakest-link" problem. The strength of authentication of _every_ system using biometric factors can only be as strong as the weakest, least secure implementation out of those
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by Phemist 7y ago
It really is brilliant. As others have pointed out, Google finds both vulnerabilities in its own products with project zero, as well in its competitors' products. There is no reason to assume project zero is biased if one considers sec
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I'm not sure what the state of the art is nowadays. Back in the day. The method at the time was so new, we just assumed that there would be no bots that would be able to complete the experiment successfully, or that they would stand ou
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Fun anecdote about some of my own dabblings in online psych experiments and MTurk. 7 or 8 years ago, my then supervisor and I experimented with running psychological (behavioural) experiments on MTurk. We had created a method that would run

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