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by confeit 7y ago
It does not favorably compare to SARS-CoV-2003. 15%-25% have severe symptoms. 5%+ critical. Of the first 100 cohorts in Wuhan with critical symptoms, 49 died (2.5% mortality rate). Patient-1 in Italy is a 38-year-old marathon runner. He is
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by confeit 7y ago
https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/ There are four steps to the Feynman Learning Technique: 1. Choose a concept you want to learn about 2. Pretend you are teaching it to a student in grade 6 3. Identif
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by confeit 7y ago
- What was the title of your talk? - "Blockchain and Peace", I've given it before. - Does any of the talk mention (looks down at paper) "smart contracts". - Probably yes. There is a slide on trusted lending circles
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by confeit 7y ago
Two things I find plausible: He was under public and private surveillance, if not for his work, then for his first-degree contacts and targeting by other countries. Imagine the US state coming to you for a friendly chat: "Sir, we are a
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by confeit 7y ago
Fair enough. Just offering an alternative/oldskool reading of this situation (this thread started out surprisingly negative against a mindset that used to be common among hackers). Laws on sharing information can sometimes be at odds w
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by confeit 7y ago
Information is physics: Information (bits) can be viewed as energy. This view allows use of tools and formulas from statistical physics and relate these to information theory (Shannon Entropy == Energy Entropy). It then becomes possible to
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by confeit 7y ago
I get your point, but then again, classified information is protected and different from the technical information shared in this case, and how to poison a water supply is on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat
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by confeit 7y ago
Hacker arrested for sharing information.
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by confeit 7y ago
Just read it as "Powered by big data" or "Powered by software" or "Powered by mathematics". It sounds fake and dumb. If it sounds fake and dumb to you, a ML practicioner, then maybe this article was not written
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by confeit 8y ago
That's why I called it naughty and not blatant manipulation. Now if this were an ICO or a company looking for an easy flip in the overhyped AI market, it would be different.
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by confeit 8y ago
Because you also used a voting ring (next to astroturfing). Admire the hustle, though a bit too naughty.
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by confeit 8y ago
Cryptocurrency.
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by confeit 8y ago
I just realized that doing the above sourcing on google.cn would probably not have yielded any good results. This means Google itself is part of the censored content. That is pretty scary!
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by confeit 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin... Google enlisted t
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by confeit 8y ago
1. It is because we/I expect better from Google. Google has such a huge responsibility, being the gateway to the world's information, and we trust them with that position. For-profit and deliberate blocking access to information e