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by levlandau 14y ago
Thing is this is a Nature paper. I don't think it's really fair to expect scientists to rephrase this discovery differently. Negative temperature is a pretty long standing concept in physics and when a stable system is synthesized in the la
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by levlandau 14y ago
Yes. This is what i had in mind. I agree. (In principle) the system can be compromised with some effort and skill.
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by levlandau 14y ago
interested in the false positive (hum is present) in which case the hum you need to "replace" something with needs to have signal correlations that match the ones in the database they've built up.
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by levlandau 14y ago
Right. I am more interested in the scenario where you fake something that is judged a genuine recording but is actually not.
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by levlandau 14y ago
Hacking the system requires reproducing an identical "hum" and not necessarily compressing it. It seems difficult but I wonder if it is impossible for someone with a synthesizer and access to their database.
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by levlandau 14y ago
Any thoughts on how "unhackable" this system is?
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by levlandau 14y ago
This is brilliant :)
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by levlandau 14y ago
Very nice
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by levlandau 14y ago
The article does implicitly address why this is an alternative to Facebook. "We feel that your work life and your social life have been well-addressed online, but no service has truly helped you stay in touch with your family". Facebook is
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by levlandau 14y ago
Awesome! Fingers crossed for a 2014 ship date!