j2kun

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by j2kun 1y ago
All modern cryptography is based on problems with some mathematical structure. With enough structure it's true, it does weaken security, and many cryptosystems are broken by exploiting the underlying structure. So I suppose the only so
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by j2kun 1y ago
Your assumption that operations leak info is just not correct. RSA has homomorphic properties (you can multiply two RSA ciphertexts and get the encrypted product of the plaintext), just not enough to enable general purpose computation.
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by j2kun 1y ago
If it makes you feel better, no cryptographic assumptions we use today are known to be NP-hard. Or maybe that makes you feel worse, not sure. But it doesn't really matter because NP-hardness is a statement about worst case inputs and c
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by j2kun 1y ago
You're right about incentives, but wrong about the first part. Private lookups of a plaintext database are possible and have been for a while now (5+ years?). The problem is it often requires some nontrivial preprocessing of the plaint
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by j2kun 1y ago
I have to wonder if some people are just trying to follow the hype. This reads like the "put a cell phone camera on your dashboard to make a car self-driving" approach to reflection.
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> Graph Theory isn't just a topic that is restricted to being "theory". There are several real-life applications of it. One of those just happens to be video games. In this talk, I go over a brief overview of several conce
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by j2kun 1y ago
So? Acronym soup is bad communication.
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They should put the meaning of "TTS" in the readme somewhere, probably near the top. Or their website.
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> for funding public goods—especially in the cryptocurrency space. Sounds like a contradiction to me. Nothing about cryptocurrency should be considered a public good, even if wealthy donors are struggling to efficiently donate money to i
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A shitty information economy captured by corporate interests and lobbying. People watch Fox News but don't want ICE to deport moms because Fox intentionally doesn't cover when Trump says he's going to deport the moms.
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by j2kun 1y ago
What BS. People want to do good. In the pacific northwest we have Ridwell where people go out of their way (and pay an extra monthly fee!) to separate their garbage so it has a better chance of being properly recycled/downcycled. You&#
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by j2kun 1y ago
I have been trying to teach my 3 (now 4) y/o to read and while he's getting it, the process is very slow and he won't try reading on his own except to look at the pictures. On the other hand, he finds numbers delightful, can
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by j2kun 1y ago
It is easy to find references [1]. I always thought it referred to the Greek mythological river Styx, where crossing the river meant going to the underworld. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/other_side
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+100 get advice from people in your life who care about you and can contextualize your situation.
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TIL, thanks!
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The classic, "why did the chicken cross the road" also fits into this genre, but nobody seems to understand that "get to the other side" means "to cross over from life to death." Every time I explain this to so
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by j2kun 1y ago
This has mirrored my experience attempting to "apply" topology in real world circumstances, off and on since I first studied topology in 2011. I even hesitate now at the common refrain "real world data approximates a smooth,
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by j2kun 1y ago
I'm referring to what the authors actually claim they did in the paper. They operated on XLA-generated textual IR. Cf. the second paragraph of 3.3.4 of https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com&#x2
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This just means that it operates on the (debug text form of the) intermediate representation of a compiler.
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I came here to mention this as well. If this problem was so critical to the company the author was working at, it seems negligent to spend a _year_ reinventing a solved problem from scratch, especially given the author's apparent histo
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by j2kun 1y ago
A twisted justification for suggesting someone who broke serious laws not face consequences. We live in a nation of laws, whether or not conspiracy-minded individuals prefer to follow them.
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by j2kun 1y ago
The problem with all these arguments is that they also apply to reading, and nobody believes that reading is heritable and that teaching kids to read would ruin their childhood. In other words, nothing about reading is natural, and nothing
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by j2kun 1y ago
Another take is that, if only people did the simple step of telling stories, it would trivially elevate the "average" ability, implying the obvious fact that math ability is largely influenced by the contemporary social attitudes
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by j2kun 2y ago
Also worth noting that `1 - -2` works and produces 3 in C because the space breaks the operator.
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For example, it's fashionable in math education these days to ask students to generate problems as a different mode of probing understanding of a topic. And from the article: "We found that students primarily use Claude to create
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They use an LLM to summarize the chats, which IMO makes the results as fundamentally unreliable as LLMs are. Maybe for an aggregate statistical analysis (for the purpose of...vibe-based product direction?) this is good enough, but if you we
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Beast Academy
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> It’s stealing, but also, admittedly, really cool. Does the growth of AI have to bring with it the tacit or even explicit encouragement of intellectual theft? You answered your own question by explicitly encouraging it.
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This is the key point, but if US laws are being violated and AI is considered part of national security, that could be used by the US government in international negotiations, and for justification for sanctions, etc. It would be a good det
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Stammy! What are you doing here?!?!? Get your deodorant back on the 405 to Ventura!

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