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   by glial 6y ago

   TLDR: “we cannot rule out the possibility of sophisticated large-scale eavesdropping attacks being successful and remaining undetected”
2. 602.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   I had the same experience. I read it in 2007, and have been thinking about it ever since. One of my top 5 books ever, maybe to 3.
3. 603.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   Wow, I had never watched one of his lectures before, that was a treat. Thank you!
4. 604.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   Here is an interview with the author cited in the article: http://www.cadtm.org/The-coming-collapse
5. 605.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   This reminds me of Kepler’s idea that nested Platonic solids describe the relative orbit diameters of the (known) planets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum
6. 606.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   I had the exact same experience.
7. 607.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   Or, you are the raw material whose behavior is measured and rendered to create a behavioral prediction product.
8. 608.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   Location: Saint Paul, MN Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Probably not Technologies: Python, R, neural networks, Bayesian modeling (Stan), optimization, data visualization, Airflow, have worked in software (familiar with git/agile&#x2F
9. 609.▲
   by glial 7y ago

   Typically around 1% of the mortgage amount, I think?
10. 610.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff. It's not exactly a 'how to' manual for privacy, but it is helpful for understanding the scale of the p
11. 611.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    Perhaps, but why bother? Counting ballots is not that hard, and the time saved by using software (if it is really saved...see Iowa) is inconsequential to the outcome of the election, or the installation of the candidate into office. Perhaps
12. 612.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    Software and voting don't mix well. We should have collectively realized this by now.
13. 613.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    I think OP is describing the mechanism that got us here, not endorsing it.
14. 614.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    There is a business opportunity here.
15. 615.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    Typically the two systems are called 'model-free' and 'model-based' learning. Model free (system 1) is fast, stimulus-response mappings. In ML, these mappings are called a policy. Most of reinforcement learning, includ
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    by glial 7y ago

    For anyone interested in learning more, Stan is an excellent alternative probabilistic programming language: https://mc-stan.org with thorough documentation: https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/
17. 617.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    At least in the psychological sciences, he's not wrong.
18. 618.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    >> So if we want theories that are correct, yes, we should value simplicity. There is no a priori reason why simple theories should be correct. The suggestion that any model can be correct is presumptuous - you might call it an a
19. 619.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    Excellent for an emergency fund, not good for long-term savings or retirement.
20. 620.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    I saw these folks talk at a conference last year and demo some of this work. There is a strong push towards asking computers to do tasks that humans and animals do in psychology and neuroscience experiments: navigating a maze, finding a pla
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    by glial 7y ago

    Obligatory (for you) xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
22. 622.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    I got rid of mine, too. Surprised to see so many others here did.
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    by glial 7y ago

    I'm not sure this is necessarily true. At a smaller scale, we didn't need to understand how humans play chess in order to build a good chess AI. I do think we need a better understanding of what we mean when we talk about inte
24. 624.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    How does this compare to Airflow? It's unclear from the website - can you create DAGs (task sequences)?
25. 625.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    > I also believe capitalism will eat itself and deliver us a pretty awesome world a hundred or so years from now I wish I could share your optimism. It's hard for me to believe there will be any future that doesn't include envi
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    by glial 7y ago

    Spinoza's Ethics Euclid's Elements Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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    by glial 7y ago

    If you don't know about the mantis shrimp, go look it up. More seriously, "most" implies a direction that we conveniently orient in ways that make humans seem superior. In my experience, linguists are particularly guilty of
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    by glial 7y ago

    Ha, I just finished that book after being turned on it by HN. Thanks, everyone!
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    by glial 7y ago

    I haven't used the others but Stan is great.
30. 630.▲
    by glial 7y ago

    I thought it was wrong -- but looking back at Euclid's proof, Euclid doesn't specify that p_1...p_n be all the primes -- just all the known primes, so there could be gaps. He says that either (1) -- p_1×p_2×p_3×…×p_n +1 is prim