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by ilya_m 2y ago
Grossly simplifying, Alice and Bob may establish an authenticated channel either by physical means (a wire) or by some combination of certificates/passwords and out-of-band authentication. Most of the time, QKD implicitly assumes the f
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by ilya_m 2y ago
… only if scalable quantum computers exist.
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Upgrade? More like launch the process of planning for drafting a bid solicitation announcement. If I were 3.5" floppies, I wouldn't worry about retirement any time soon.
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by ilya_m 3y ago
> AI is a probabilistic computation ... so what they're saying - if i'm reading this right - is that we can reduce the complexity of our current models by orders of magnitude. Unfortunately, no. First, the result applies to dec
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or, in less dramatic terms, if you cannot reject the null, you should operate on the assumption that the null holds.
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How I Learned to Concentrate(newyorker.com)
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by ilya_m 3y ago
> Another classic essay showing how textbooks repeat other textbooks without properly questioning what should be taught is https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf . If you've taken some variant of
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David Kahn, author of "The Codebreakers", has died(washingtonpost.com)
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Advent of Code 2023 in Recursive SQL(github.com)
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Elimination of human rabies in Goa, India (2022)(nature.com)
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by ilya_m 3y ago
> I'm reading tea leaves here, but my guess as to why she was never hired is that she was deemed "unable to get grants". Rest assured, this is exactly what happened. University administrators have no expertise, interest,
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Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) worth $35B says 'suffering' wasn't worth it(sfgate.com)
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The Thucydides’s Trap Case File (2017)(belfercenter.org)
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Te Harvard Thucydides’s Trap Project has identified sixteen cases in which a major rising power has threatened to displace a major ruling power. Twelve of these sixteen rivalries ended in war.
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by ilya_m 3y ago
I understand the comment's thesis, but I'd like to see more accurate numbers used where real health outcomes are concerned. The lifetime risk of being diagnosed with colorectal cancer is ~4%. (With the odds trending higher for the
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The evolution of complex grammars: Grammatical complexity of 1,314 languages(phys.org)
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Kevin Mitnick got commemorated this way. How do I know it? Because I asked about the black band, and the good people of HN explained that to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803421
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Should have been 273K, right?
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Anything procedurally generated is antithetical to professional font design. Fonts at different sizes are carefully fine-tuned exactly for the reasons that you mentioned, i.e., small features at larger sizes start looking wrong.
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Ask HN: Why did HN add a black strip on top?
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by ilya_m 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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ChatGPT passes French high-school (bac) philosophy exam; loses to human(gearrice.com)
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In Defense of Merit in Science(journalofcontroversialideas.org)
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by ilya_m 3y ago
(in mice)
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by ilya_m 5y ago
Native Russian speaker here. It is a perfectly acceptable and common practice when one wants to include Russian phrases in an otherwise non-Cyrillic text. "Doveryai no proveryai", etc.
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by ilya_m 5y ago
Thanks for clarification and pointing to the forum guidelines. I hoped I was being charitable, trying to explain away the cluelessness of the comment.
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by ilya_m 5y ago
Hmmm? Is someone experimenting with GPT-3 commenting on NH? Because it sure feels like it - the comment is mostly grammatical, uses approximately correct jargon, and completely nonsensical.
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Obamacare and a Fix for the IRS Iteration (2020)(arxiv.org)
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