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by mapmeld 2y ago
It's a brand new website and old URLs won't work (this has been somewhat routine since Obama's first term). I wouldn't take that as a sign that a specific executive order is rescinded. However it may have been grouped in
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Chemistry applications, which may be possible using the current or near-future era of quantum computers. It helps to have actual quantum effects to compute with. For example (I am not affiliated with this company and don't know if it w
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by mapmeld 2y ago
Not really. The primary issue with Bitcoin x quantum computers is that older Bitcoin transactions contained a full public key (and not a fingerprint / wallet address), so a quantum computer could manipulate that to make a false signatu
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by mapmeld 2y ago
I don't have any inside knowledge to expand on this, but it's interesting that Voting Village has had a public participatory component (website, social media, annual appearance at DEFCON, CFPs guiding messaging on topics on hardwa
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by mapmeld 2y ago
It's likely an issue with displaying Arabic text in WebGL, since that needs to handle all of the possible options for each letter in the text-shaping.
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by mapmeld 2y ago
For people unfamiliar, Semantic Scholar is run by the Allen Institute and has been researching accurate AI summarization and semantic search for years. Also they have support for author name changes.
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by mapmeld 2y ago
There are some authors in common with a more recent paper "Defending Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks via Semantic Smoothing" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16192
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by mapmeld 2y ago
An AI prompted to say it's an archivist might not have the same legal weight as one saying it's a doctor or can identify toxic mushrooms, but the organization suffers by bringing in tech which doesn't help the employees - esp
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by mapmeld 2y ago
From other reports, it sounds like hotel security was trained about hackers carrying the Flipper Zero. Maybe they thought the badges were something like that?
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by mapmeld 2y ago
Video is from 2016, so tough to say how much of that is or ever was implemented. The NYC subway is just now piloting metal detector type devices which are poles which detect "signatures" of common items and weapons. I have no idea
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by mapmeld 2y ago
My nomination for night sky viewing: Ölgii in western Mongolia (was there for the golden eagle festival). Clear desert sky, accessible by airplane, not a tiny town either.
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by mapmeld 2y ago
I watched a "reaction video" to The Truman Show recently where the hosts were wholly unfamiliar with the movie beyond Jim Carrey. They focused on the cruelty of faking the family, relationship, and community around him. The film
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by mapmeld 2y ago
I don't think anyone has a solid public answer about why they didn't reopen with other museums after 2020. It might be too costly, people leaving the organization, etc. to the point that the board didn't think it could reopen
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by mapmeld 2y ago
Agreed, I gave real $ to the "Lambda Perpetual Access Fund" and now feel negative about the whole thing, but the sections where the author is talking about Austen's golf swing, bots, having written a paragraph conscious of cl
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by mapmeld 2y ago
Job loss for knowledge workers , especially affecting intro jobs (I'm thinking of frontend dev or paralegal work, which is how a lot of people get a foothold in these fields). What are reasonable degrees to take out a college loan for
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by mapmeld 2y ago
Based on the page footer ("IECC ChurnWare") I believe this is a site by design to waste time for web crawlers and tools which try to get root access on every domain. The robots.txt looks like this: https://ulysses-antoi
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by mapmeld 3y ago
These are the models on HF which have "Matryoshka" in the name, such as the PubMed one; I worked on a protein sequence one https://huggingface.co/models?search=matryoshka
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by mapmeld 3y ago
Major kudos to this library for supporting Matryoshka/nested/adaptive embeddings ( https://huggingface.co/blog/matryoshka ), which I needed to train a model recently
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by mapmeld 3y ago
What would prevent a known person from accepting a govt payout to sabotage their project, or to merge a plausible-looking patch? Relying on identity just promotes a type of culture of reputation over code review.
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by mapmeld 3y ago
But how far away are we from hardware for stable quantum key generation/storage that would fit on a tabletop, much less a home laptop or smartphone? Almost certain that consumer devices will stay in classical computing and use PQE.
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by mapmeld 3y ago
When I hear that this military base on US soil, with dedicated security and surveillance, can't recover one drone, or get photos to trace who or what sent the drone, I think of the London airport shutdown from 2018. There is no super d
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by mapmeld 3y ago
For years I did month-to-month Airbnbs to chase these feelings around being able to pick up and move wherever, whenever. If you can do WFH and have financial security, I would say sell some stuff, put the rest in storage, and make a plan to
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by mapmeld 3y ago
My go-to counterargument for this is that galaxies are really far apart (from us to Andromeda is 25x the diameter of the Milky Way). If you haven't developed FTL travel, it's a long haul with very little benefit on the way.
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I went to a week-long Probabilistic AI seminar, and I got the impression there was an era when enough stats and math professors did not take a Bayesian framework seriously, that there was a risk someone's thesis or dissertation defense
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I believe it's quantum annealing. Not a physicist but my understanding was it can be used for some problems but not universal quantum computing.
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by mapmeld 3y ago
IBM, D-Wave, and others have press releases about consulting and R&D partnerships. For example, Volkswagen: https://www.vw.com/en/newsroom/future-of-mobility/quantum-co... TBH it doesn't seem practic
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by mapmeld 3y ago
Everyone has kinda answered your question about these old practices carrying over. We're seeing the end of the last surviving hotel residents - recently NYT covered the eviction of an 82-year-old, who took over a contract from his aunt
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I wrote some quantum library code, ended up interviewing with 2 quantum startups and Amazon's lab at CalTech For people who've been in the industry for a while, the past 5 years have been amazing - (small, noisy = NISQ) quantum co
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I did a write-up because it was an example of broken text "in the wild" rather than in technical references. Also it takes me a minute to think of () as open/close parens instead of left/right parens.
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Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways(blog.georeactor.com)
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