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by kvathupo 4y ago
Frankly, the article reads as if the author has an axe to grind. On utility, there's more than just Shor's: unstructured search [1], finance ([2], [3]). Even if quantum computers ultimately prove unfruitful commercially, that does
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Although this seems to only affect the Chinese and Russian governments (as opposed to researchers), I'm generally against economic brinkmanship of this variety. It just festers resentment, and doesn't seem to achieve much: of what
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I think the commenter brings up an interesting point that China more effectively regulates industries that commit wrong [1]. I wouldn't reduce their point to being tantamount to fascism; rather, I read @gsatic as arguing for equal appl
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by kvathupo 4y ago
That inspiration wasn't lost in Wasteland 2, where there's a "Isaac Leibovitz" npc who accepts a canticle item : ^ )
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by kvathupo 4y ago
It sucks to criticize, but I concur in the case of the site's article on neural networks [1]. They state that the successes of neural networks "defy mathematical understanding." Universal Approximation Theorem is sufficient;
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Of particular worry, decreasing population entails decreasing gene pool (as I understand it). Thus, with a lack of sufficient genetic diversity in a small population, the species enters a mutation-motivated extinction vortex [1]. Biology is
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Not an expert, but you should upgrade now to prevent attackers from stealing your encrypted data today, and decrypting it later. That said, you'll have to determine if your data is worth stealing.
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by kvathupo 4y ago
A point rendering the choice even more curious: Germany and the Netherlands have recommended the use of encryption not relying on the shortest vector problem [1]. The two suggestions of FrodoKEM (relying on hardness of the learning with err
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Perhaps a Swede can chime in, but I'd imagine Sweden has a lax regulatory approach, e.g. compare the fates of PRQ and Megaupload. It's, admittedly inexplicably, concerning that we've driven people to foreign companies (from A
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by kvathupo 4y ago
On the financial end of the spectrum, there's "american dream" [1] by Stephen Lavelle [2], an enigmatic fellow who releases almost all his games as open-source. Putting you in the shoes of a trader, the game is a strong conte
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I'm curious if Amazon retail was equally efficient in the past, say the early 2000s. Was warehouse management the same?
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by kvathupo 4y ago
If you enjoy the grounded magic of Ghibli, check out the works of Yuri Norstein. He was a big influence on the studio. Judging from the exclusivity of the 4k blu-ray of all his work to Japan (last I checked), he's evidently appreciated
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by kvathupo 4y ago
In my experience, the only hole in shadow libraries is that they lack scans of old papers on non-trendy subjects. Interestingly, it seems the humanities don't have analogously useful sites.
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It's an unfortunately common sentiment: some of us like programming in their free-time : ^ )
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by kvathupo 4y ago
This reminds me of a former coworker. He would occasionally make mistakes, and was an okay programmer (in terms of writing code that'll scale). That said, he was an invaluable _team_ member who more than made up for his technical short
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by kvathupo 4y ago
So, this article is very evidently leaning towards a Left, anti-imperialist view by calling Ukraine a "proxy war" and the comments by Hudson. Not necessarily a "bad" thing; after all, it is a popular sentiment [1]. Two p
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I'd disagree with the characterization that Facebook is maximizing user engagement with messenger. Rather, they wanted messenger to 1. Be the de facto protocol used by companies 2. Let people spend less time on messenger, and render pl
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by kvathupo 4y ago
As someone who has trained transformers with only ~5 layers on 1000 data point inputs for a decoder of length like 10 (so far fewer than the 12 billion parameters of DALL-E [1]), I learned two things: 1. Training is very finicky and time-co
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by kvathupo 4y ago
The article brings up two interesting points for web preservation: 1. The reliance on externally hosted APIs 2. Source code obfuscation For 1, in order to fully preserve a webpage, you'd have to go down the rabbit hole of externally ho
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by kvathupo 4y ago
As others have noted, the author is no literary authority (even if they were, they'd still encounter criticism, see Harold Bloom). That said, I think these critiques overlook the fact that Jon Bois's work speaks to _the author&#x2
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Tempted to sell at a loss, as opposed to waiting for the split at this point
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Ah, that actually wasn't the debacle I had in mind; I'm not too familiar with the details of the Rainbow concerns unfortunately. With respect to the shortest vector problem (SVP) being a point of contention among NIST PQC particip
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by kvathupo 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I skimmed the article, and have it on my to-be-read) When I first encountered the notion of adversarial examples, I thought it was a niche concern. As this paper outlined, however, the growth of "machine-learning-as-a-serv
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Ah, I now see glimpses of that from their other comments. I also agree with your general sentiments of academic credentials/aptitude not translating to managerial competence; granted, this may or may not be the case for Fei Fei Li, as
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by kvathupo 5y ago
She's a world-class researcher in computer vision. If anyone should be on the board, it's an accomplished computer science researcher who has mentored many young people at Silicon Valley U. I find it quite curious that you single
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To their credit, I don't think its use-case is limited to monorepos. I've personally had a multiple GB `.git` file due to storing many data files in a repo. In retrospect, data __shouldn't__ be version-controlled, but it&#x27
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by kvathupo 5y ago
I think one can't compare deep learning to machine learning since they have different purposes. While there have been great strides in the interpretability of NNs, the analytic models of classical machine learning are favored from a co
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by kvathupo 5y ago
Although it tends towards Deep Learning as opposed to AI, I highly recommend Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. It not only provides a solid Bayesian perspective, but also comments on the subtleties of applying theory.
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by kvathupo 5y ago
__What is this?__ Former President Obama speaking on regulatory approaches to social media companies. Lasts for an hour from the 2 hour mark (should already start there). __Why did I post this here?__ I wanted to spur educated discussion (t

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