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by acobster 10y ago
Definitely agree. From what I can tell so far (I've only just unlocked the Perpendicular Bisector tool), it strikes a great balance. Just-in-time helper prompts, a nice drag 'n' drop style UX that naturally lends itself to mo
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by acobster 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Great read.
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by acobster 10y ago
Anyone know specifics about the "recent events"? EDIT: https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-shuts-down-following-report...
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by acobster 10y ago
Typically how it went for me was I would see an emotionally charged headline in my feed from a website or blog with a palpable agenda, and then I would seek out a couple other, more fact-based articles covering the same story. But what I fo
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by acobster 10y ago
Totally agree. I just don't know too much about kernel security and wanted to clarify whether this was mitigation via stc or something else.
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by acobster 10y ago
Yeah, makes sense. Thanks for the link.
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by acobster 10y ago
As an American and former FB user I must admit that before I gave it up entirely, it was my primary channel for finding news. This is still true of many of my friends and, I suspect, no small number of Americans. But yeah.
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by acobster 10y ago
> Probabilistic protections can be defeated if the information leaks out, but they are still effective and worth doing. What is the argument here? Is there something about this randomization that distinguishes it from classic security th
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by acobster 10y ago
Agreed, if it was oscillating wildly between extremes that would be one thing, but moving a few degrees is IMHO a helpful reinforcement of the margin of uncertainty.
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by acobster 10y ago
You have redundant integrity checks involving cryptography and independent, human professionals built into the compilation/deployment/testing process.
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by acobster 10y ago
I was in 7th grade when my teacher recommended a few search engines to our class. I had been using Alta Vista up until that time, and I noticed right away that Google's results were somehow better ... Anyway, Google's pretty snap
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by acobster 10y ago
Detecting and adapting to volume isn't that big of a challenge in comparison to natural language processing. But if you mean something more subtle, like discretion or taboo...that's probably much harder than NLP.
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by acobster 10y ago
> Eventually they're predicting. Then you can do things like ambient intelligence where you can provide services and you can provide products or experiences to people before they know they need it. So, it's your friend...but it
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A room full of robot conversations, for science(github.com)
1 points by acobster 10y ago|0 comments
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by acobster 10y ago
> That's his point. That's her point. :)
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by acobster 10y ago
All acts of resistance have consequences. That's because it's important, and "they" know it's important. I think it's reasonable to assume this gets you put on a watchlist if you're not already. As others
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by acobster 10y ago
Wow. To be totally honest, I expected to get a little more feedback than this, but it seems like Khan Academy is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for! I can't believe I'd never seen it before, thanks. :)
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Ask HN: Where can I find AI/ML math resources?
2 points by acobster 10y ago|2 comments
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by acobster 10y ago
glad I'm not the only one.
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by acobster 10y ago
Good article. Confronts the emotional reality of brutal trauma without being invalidating. Just one critique: why does Maria have to be dressed like a "sexy librarian"? This risqué suggestion is jarring and out of character with t
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by acobster 10y ago
My bank limits passwords to ten chars. Ten! Have you ever heard any reasoning behind why they do this? The "best" excuse I've heard is so that customers don't forget. As if they don't have a "Forgot password?&q
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by acobster 10y ago
Could not agree more. I can't shake the feeling that he's being hand-wavey on purpose, essentially saying that nothing needs to change because, you see, supply and demand...
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by acobster 10y ago
That's where I'm getting a little hazy. The paper says the attacker can "induce bit flips over arbitrary physical memory in a fully controlled way." Sounds a little more advanced than "largely random" to me, an
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by acobster 10y ago
The abstract says the attack allows "flips over arbitrary physical memory in a fully controlled way." If I'm understanding that correctly, it would be trivial to then restore the old key alongside it, leaving the victim none
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by acobster 10y ago
What's so uninteresting about growing lettuce in space? Isn't it at least a little bit awesome that they're able to achieve some small aspect of self-sufficiency in orbit?
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by acobster 10y ago
> Note that you should only ever do this if you are absolutely sure that you are the only person pushing to that repository. I would revise this to say the only person pushing to that branch. But yeah.
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by acobster 10y ago
> The fact that we don't know why it should be kept secret doesn't imply that they don't have a good reason. True, but when Tom Blanton comes out and agrees that "90 percent" of it doesn't need to be classif
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by acobster 10y ago
Generally doing "the right thing" based on a rough definition of "what we have and what we want" is not mind-reading, but it is essentially what Prolog does. The author seems to conflate AI with declarative programming