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by abarker 2y ago
This is a paywall-free link the NYT Opinion account posted to Reddit: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...
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by abarker 2y ago
The technology could also be used by oppressive governments to harass dissenters (and anyone else they might target). Essentially modern, high-tech COINTELPRO.
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by abarker 2y ago
Also he had been under FBI surveillance, which he was apparently aware of.
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by abarker 2y ago
The Australian Human Rights Commission discussed many of these issues in its March report, "Protecting Cognition: Background Paper on Neurotechnology": https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/technology-and-human-
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by abarker 3y ago
It came to light because some financial records were sent to the CIA's Retired Records Center for some reason and escaped destruction. See page 5 of [1]. [1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/
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by abarker 4y ago
This reminds me of the Buddha's comparison of the Dhamma to a raft, which one does not carry around on his or her back after crossing over on it. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.than.html
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by abarker 4y ago
There's a little more information in this Reddit thread [1]. In it someone references an earlier work by Jason Zimba [2]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/11zptjo/an_impossible... [2] ht
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by abarker 4y ago
Conversely, these models open up philosophical questions of "exactly what a human is" beyond language abilities. How much of what we think, do, and perceive comes from the use of language?
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by abarker 4y ago
I wonder how effective it would be at finding exploitable security holes in code.
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by abarker 4y ago
The relation is virtually always bidirectional, and often forms complex, dynamic feedback loops. Simple causal analysis can fail in such situations.
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by abarker 4y ago
This is reminiscent of Soviet psychiatry and the diagnosis of "sluggish schizophrenia" for dissidents.
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by abarker 4y ago
It's already an English translation of a French paraphrase of a text of unknown provenance.
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by abarker 4y ago
He's using Euler's Tonnetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz
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Show HN: Fast, correct API-view Vim folding for Python, written in Cython(github.com)
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by abarker 4y ago
It is a theory in the sense that it is epistemic. Bob's quantum state changes depending on Alice's measurement, essentially collapsing the probability distribution to the conditional probability distribution. As science it canno
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by abarker 4y ago
In quantum information theory the ability of Alice to instantaneously change Bob's quantum state (and hence measurement probabilities) is referred to as quantum steering. No information can be sent, but the influencing effect can be d
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by abarker 4y ago
They haven't uploaded to YouTube, but that's kind of the idea of this project: http://allthemusic.info/
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by abarker 4y ago
Check out projectM, "an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop": https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
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by abarker 5y ago
Some other similar projects are Pythran, Transonic, and mypyc.
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by abarker 5y ago
Bash function names also have a different namespace than Bash variables, so you can define a function and a shell variable with the same name. I used that in a script which defines a function to be used like an alias to change to a specifi
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by abarker 6y ago
Aaronson seems to be using the term Zen metaphorically, as a general path to some sort of "enlightenment" or "Zen state."
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by abarker 6y ago
In the '90s McGehee claimed that he was being harassed in Herdon, Va. where he lived, in part due to his CIABASE database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McGehee#Controversies http://www.pinknoiz.c