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hershel
13y ago
Do you still have a link to the presentation ? It sounds interesting.
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I wonder if they open this for applications that help software developers and engineers or leave it closed because of their main consulting business? But anyways, it could be really useful in consumer healthcare, especially considering the
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13y ago
I think so. For example thl sells the w100(cheapest phone they make) at $154 and it offers lesser specs, and it's targeted for the Chinese market. $179 is just a bit more expensive, with better specs, so it could succeed.
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Does it also have access to internal debug registers in the cpu? Because some techniques(TREZOR) encrypt memory and store the key in those registers, as an antu-malware technique.
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13y ago
Even in pop-science books, there's often a list of citations at the end.
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I don't think your comment is an accurate summary of the the links i posted. For example, in the first link the author summarizes his long comment: " In short, he's extremely sloppy with his numbers and relies on almost no sc
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13y ago
Some in the historical and anthropological community are critical of Pinker's approach and statistics: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1igscl/what_i... http://www.reddit.co
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>> The highest priority is Stability(Read, Quality in general) After reading the transcripts about the code in the toyota car that had an accident it doesn't seem so. Maybe electrical engineers honestly try , but they don't
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What about "deep learning" combined with lots of data ? teams using the technique have won some competitions in kaggle , while doing little feature engineering(which is usually the part which you put domain knowledge) . And it had
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Since there are so many types of errors,the usual recommendation is to use a higher level library, like NaCl. I wonder if using similar approach shown in this research ,one could determine if apps are using NaCl(say, for all outgoing commun
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>> A new static analysis is likely to be far too compute-intensive to be offered to the public on hardware the research group has the time/money to operate. Let's describe the division between Academics and users: Academics
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According to webmd, plan rates will only depend on age: "" Q: Will there be a limit as to how high a premium insurance companies can charge if you have a pre-existing condition? A: Yes. As of 2014, insurers cannot charge consumers
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I wonder, where is the api-zation of CS research ? It would have been nice if CS research was available as source code, but until that happens(probably long into the future),why aren't we seeing more research offered as API , even for
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It's different when everything is integrated , drive much much more usage, which is the whole point.
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Tptacek, whistle blowers level security should not be a use case for this extension , and should be advertised as part of it. But decreasing the amount of dragnet surveillance by some extent sounds like a good thing to me. For example, man
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>> I want to make it as easy as possible for users to try out and adopt. Just testing it out? No installation required. Why not offer an option to try it out in the browser(with same GUI), and if they want security tell them to insta
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But doesn't this approach if implemented the best we can , at least blocks dragnet surveillance ? isn't that valuable ?
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This relatively old webpage[1] talks about the possibility of side channel attacks in javascript(among other things).I believe this applies to Phonegap. [1] https://hellais.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/how-to-impro
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>> guarantee the recipient list won't be leaked. Basically , if you A. Put a chain of servers between the sender and the recipient, each with a unique encryption key(which lets you reveal unique info for each server privately) B.
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I believe that the SCIMP whitepaper is from 2012. They haven't released their current protocol , and they said they don't want to talk too much about it because there could be changes.
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This is not exceptionally power efficient. It does around 90 gigaops/sec(probably 5bit ops) and programmable only in forth. Parallela has a chip that does 90 gflops/watt and is programmable in c/open-cl/r and maybe othe
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IBM is working on a version of watson that is able to create create recipes. I believe they already have some success. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/jeopardy-winning-chef-wats... >>Comedy and drama on the oth
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Due to leakage current , for some types of applications it doesn't make sense to make the transistor size shrink. For example , energy micro, one of the leaders in low power microcontrollers use the very old 130nm process, same as thos
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Like you said , this ship has sailed. Maybe there's an open market in memchached acceleration(basically computing hashes). Convey does this with FPGA's[1], and offers 3x performance/$. Or maybe other cloud compute acceleratio
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No. You don't have to be an expert to be able to communicate well with experts.
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Some Canadian dental schools require passing a dexterity test. This is not a requirement in the u.s.
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That's all my sources, plus an extra news article[1]. Click reactions are interesting. What's the point of this ? first, it's offering places with lack of solid access to medicines and materials a good source. Second, it has
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BTW , the researchers behind research started this research by building a DIY 3D printer[1] , which is pretty cool. >> General reaction container Another article i read about this , talks about getting some short list of base material
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Probably from the same reason you cannot get statistics about your surgeon before surgery(only recently it's been possible in the u.k.[1]): doctors have huge political power , and they are using it to their advantage. Another reason ,
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Chemical synthesis via 3D printing?
(chemistry.stackexchange.com)
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