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by compbio 12y ago
Could be part of it. 1. Add a link to the uninstall instructions on my download page. I told him that my uninstall was completely standard for the platforms I support (Windows and Mac). But he insisted. I looked at point two: 2. Remove s
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by compbio 12y ago
These [no malware] requirements apply to software hosted on your site or linked to from your site. Perhaps it started with this? You linked (or let a reviewing user link) to a hacked site. I can understand Adwords taking action i
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by compbio 12y ago
AI at Google knows which document to show for your query and which advertisement you are likely to click on. Goldman Sachs uses machine learned algorithms already. Running a company requires vision, creativity, leadership, human interaction
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by compbio 12y ago
I meant reproducing (like in the quote), but sure: http://www.apollon.uio.no/video/a_robot_e.mp4 And the press release: “In the future, robots must be able to solve tasks in deep mines on distant planets, in radioacti
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by compbio 12y ago
The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. [...] Later Perceptrons will be able to recognize people and call out
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by compbio 12y ago
I wonder if the recent fear of AGI suffers a bit from investor's dilemma: rich investors want to make the world a better place. This forces them to think about the long-term impact of investments in AI technology. There are just too ma
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by compbio 12y ago
Yes, it looks similar. Problem: Getting honest questions on questionaires is difficult. Setup: Respondents supply not only their own answers, but also percentage estimates of others' answers. Algorithm: The BTS formula assigns higher s
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Bayesian Truth Serum(nel.mit.edu)
39 points by compbio 12y ago|5 comments
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Kvikkalkul: the secret programming language of the Swedish Navy?(workbench.cadenhead.org)
113 points by compbio 12y ago|26 comments
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by compbio 12y ago
Gareth Williams (26 September 1978 – c. 16 August 2010) was a Welsh mathematician and employee of GCHQ seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house
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by compbio 12y ago
> On the rest, if you believe that, then you must have been absent for the other million times when an individual was thrown into the garbage bin by Google, and told "you did something wrong (maybe), but we won't tell you what,
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by compbio 12y ago
This used to be the "solution" to spammy links: Drop their value to zero. This caused an entire eco-system of spammers with the mentality: "I'll just generate 1000 links without the prospect of a penalty in the hope that
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by compbio 12y ago
I am not in a position to give a full report on the quality of the backlink profile. > The original post made it sound like there was no act to clean up. That seems standard: from innocent to the most hardcore spammer, of course they did
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by compbio 12y ago
When you rely on Google for visitors/income, then they have some power over you. Agreed. Google still can't force you to change your website content. If you run Adsense on your site, and Google finds that your website content qual
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by compbio 12y ago
The web has changed and is still changing into a more dynamic app-like structure, from static content. With that come new guidelines in regards to (search engine) accessibility. Google also is battling spammers. Spammers can saturate a sing
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by compbio 12y ago
I saw your previous post and could not find egregious blackhat SEO stuff. The backlink profile was not too healthy though, with around 250 domains responsible for over 7000 backlinks. You said you got a spam warning on Google Webmaster Tool
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by compbio 12y ago
The entirely fictitious: [Superfish technology sends your data to a third party ad server. We then use this data to create behavioral profiles on you, we process this data, and we monitor it. Finally we record all this data in our backups f
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by compbio 12y ago
There is also negligence. Like in the original case [1] where a woman got ill and suffered emotional distress after drinking bottled ginger beer with a decomposing snail in it. Even though the manufacturer had no intent to sell "snail
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by compbio 12y ago
Perhaps Microsoft could put out a security update to remove any Superfish certificates left. Still after the fact, but better than doing nothing (and leaving these suspicious certs around).
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by compbio 12y ago
Dutch IT lawyers [1] say that Lenovo could be breaching European and Dutch Law. More specifically the "cookie law" which says that explicit permission is needed to change and read data from a user's computer (Lenovo never ask
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by compbio 12y ago
Like tptacek said, versions of Windows after Windows XP shipped with their own disk encryption functionality. XP needed TC for that. Next to that: the announcement to discontinue the product was very close to the MS end-of-life announcement
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by compbio 12y ago
Proving "randomness" is impossible, akin to finding the shortest program to reproduce a larger string (Kolmogorov complexity). Strings are Kolmogorov Random when they can not possibly be compressed any further by any program: Kolm
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by compbio 12y ago
The article also mentions fanny.bmp as an NSA exploit. Here a post from 2010 [1] from someone who encountered this virus on an USB stick and saved the virus: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1488855/all
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by compbio 12y ago
The "I am not a lawyer" should be in the back of your mind whenever the author talks about the legalities of this software agreement. It is possible to both anonymize and aggregate GPS-data to a degree where it is neigh impossible
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by compbio 12y ago
You can (and preferably should) use a Whitehat Test Account to perform your research/make your report: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/ apps.facebook.com (Facebook Windows Store) is not in the scop
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Deleting any Facebook album(7xter.com)
506 points by compbio 12y ago|97 comments
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by compbio 12y ago
See also this Kaggle competition where the task was to predict impending seizures: https://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction The top contestants achieved an accuracy of around 0.82 AUC, which blew the top of previous
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by compbio 12y ago
Rude: A site that optimizes for speed to gain an SEO boost, does not deserve this SEO boost. A site like Pinterest should optimize for speed, regardless of what Google says. If you turn back an experiment meant to enhance usability and enga
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by compbio 12y ago
Pinterest likely cloaks traffic. Internal site traffic to a pinboard will require a log-in/register to continue viewing the board. Traffic from the Google index is allowed to continue viewing the board. That is treating search engines
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by compbio 12y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

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