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1951.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
The Washington Post story lists several theories and puts the spotlight in a bad thing that may have happened here. Hopefully that will inspire other investigators to keep digging. Newspaper reporters are not given infinite resources to cha
1952.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
I do wonder what human existence looks like in a world where all meaningful intellectual tasks are handled better by AI. I don’t think we’re at that world yet, but it sure seems like a depressing place to be. I worry about this even in a fu
1953.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
People won’t feel comfortable retracting papers with errors if the practice in the industry is to highlight the retraction on a giant billboard next to items like “Scientist commits massive fraud.” If that’s the consequence for honestly cor
1954.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Actual BUSD is issued on Ethereum by Paxos, which is a separate US company that is licensed and regulated by NYDFS. I think it’s unlikely that any of this issuance is fraudulent. Binance then maintains a “pegged BUSD” token on the BNB chain
1955.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
These arguments, where you only look at current deployment and not growth and projected trends, aren’t worth very much. It’s like asking whether you should invest in smartphones or dumb-phones back in 2008: looking at that year’s ownership
1956.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Well, at least the Viet Cong got their better deal, right?
1957.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
The problem with this analysis is not that it’s wrong: the existence of a zero-sum nuclear/renewables “argument” is absolutely a huge benefit to the legacy fossil fuels industry. The problem is that right now it’s renewables and not
1958.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
This seems like an important story that’s getting no discussion.
1959.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Not just that one TNG episode! It came back up in Voyager and was explained as damage caused by the Omega molecule :)
1960.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
I asked it to explain part of my thesis work on Oblivious Transfer, and it gave me a lovely prose description of the Green-Hohenberger Oblivious Transfer protocol. It was clear and confident, and the thing it described was even an actual pr
1961.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
I visited Binance's main page on BUSD [1] and it suggests you go look at their proof-of-reserves page [2], which lists the exact number of each token on Ethereum (5,334,500,000), BNB (5,315,999,056), Avalanche (11,500,000) and Polygon
1962.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Yes, but I believe that this "wrapping" should be visible on chain. In the sense that there should be a 1:1 mapping between "real" BUSD locked on Ethereum and the number of pegged BUSD on other chains, and that the accou
1963.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Tether has no meaningful regulatory oversight. Circle has money transmitter licenses in most US states, some of which cover them as a virtual asset service provider, and require specific conditions around the way that they store customer fu
1964.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
> This is his point, though. Not only are authors still getting tenure after failed replication, they're still getting citations! And his point is irrelevant. For two reasons that I've already explained multiple times now! (1)
1965.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
For-profit in this case means "I pay you $2500 and you let me give you a list of the peer-reviewers I'd like to review my paper, all of whom happen to be my friends and business associates."
1966.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
>The crux of your point though seems to be that nobody uses them as a metric I didn't say that at all: what I said is right there in my post. What I did say is that citation counts are a bad and noisy metric, one that is a side-ef
1967.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
> He is not suggesting the use of citation count as a metric for quality. I have no idea how you could have possibly gotten that from reading this article. TFA is extremely clear that the presence of citations (in the aggregate, as a cou
1968.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Reading through this quickly I see several problems that make me wonder if the author has worked in academia. 1. Publication venues aren’t created equal. People outside of academia don’t understand that anyone can and will start a journal
1969.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
The problem with these online “status” discussions is that they discuss status as though it’s independent of the hard work and talent that typically results in success. I’m not saying that’s always present: some people just get lucky. But m
1970.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
Most MITM attacks that we care about are active attacks (hence Mallory.) An eavesdropper-in-the-middle attack would just be the standard attack setting, not an MITM. For those who are experts the term is “MITM” and I don’t care what the fir
1971.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
It is hard for me to imagine Starship going from “hasn’t flown yet” to “taking non-expert astronauts on the most ambitious manned private spaceflight in history” in anything close to a year. Five years, optimistically? Ten?
1972.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
This is over the top even for the CIA, but they were definitely capable of being monsters. In the case of Gary Powers the agency fought hard to avoid a prisoner exchange and even internally claimed he had defected intentionally. His wife wa
1973.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
>Buying a building for £15M doesn't make you £15M poorer because you can sell the building later. Spoken like someone who has never been responsible for the maintenance of a very old home. :)
1974.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
All you're saying is that Google needs to do a more careful human review before reporting to law enforcement. This is not a strong argument for privacy-preserving tech.
1975.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
The problem is that Google’s system “works better” from the point of view of law enforcement. By that I mean it’s much less restrictive, and will find “novel” CSAM. The problem with Apple’s privacy-conscious approach is that it conceded the
1976.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
I find that Model 3 FSD hugs the center line even on roads with a huge amount of lane space, to the point that some cars and trucks will honk at me because they think I’m about to cross over. It also gets confused constantly by badly marked
1977.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
It is not a very impressive list of future technologies for the year 2022, unfortunately. I don't mean this as shade: I just mean that most of these are older ideas that have either been deployed or attempted (with limited success.) Cl
1978.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
This is a situation where the typical consumer has asymmetric resources and time pressure (they’re paying quickly at a retail checkout), and hence have limited opportunity to hunt around CVS’s website to figure out whether CVS is doing the
1979.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
All science and research is difficult. In order to do it correctly with our imperfect tools, you're going to need a large field of expert peers who are able to relentlessly challenge your findings. This process doesn't always lead
1980.
by matthewdgreen 4y ago
In this case there was a metal “No Trespassing” sign at the corner. The hunters used a stepladder to climb over it, such that both ends of the ladder were on public land. The prosecution claims that they still violated the private landowner

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