moyix

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by moyix 11y ago
> Unless there's a chance that at the moment of death the conscience is still there (due to great redundancy in the brain), it might be futile, after all. This is one issue that I believe all cryonics companies and advocates prefer
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by moyix 11y ago
Yes! I once started testing a class I had written, only to discover methods I hadn't finished writing yet were working perfectly! It turns out I was accidentally reimplementing a library function, and I had chosen the exact same names
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by moyix 11y ago
This is not true. The site is based on their USENIX Security 2014 paper, "A Large-Scale Analysis of the Security of Embedded Firmwares". Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixse
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by moyix 11y ago
Yeah. But as Scott Aaronson points out, GI has a very different feel to factoring. A randomly chosen number will be hard to factor, but it's actually quite hard to come up with examples of GI that are hard: > But then again, in prac
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by moyix 11y ago
Pretty common in CS papers. It sure beats fighting LaTeX trying to get N different author blocks to show up properly.
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by moyix 11y ago
Some quick Googling turns up: http://www.drtomascp.com/uploads/PersonalityIntelligence_IJS... Which seems to provide some (weak) evidence against that: "The hypothesis of a significant correlation between various
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by moyix 11y ago
From the Wikipedia page you link on multiple intelligences: > Intelligence tests and psychometrics have generally found high correlations between different aspects of intelligence, rather than the low correlations which Gardner's th
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by moyix 11y ago
Just wanted to point out that PANDA actually doesn't need to know anything about the semantics of system calls, including ioctl. It builds on a whole-system emulator, and the things it records are hardware events (interrupts, memory ma
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by moyix 11y ago
iDNA traces are huge though, and recording them adds a ton of overhead. rr is way more lightweight.
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by moyix 11y ago
I continue to be somewhat baffled as to why malware authors don't use public key crypto for these things. Maybe commonly available libraries don't make it easy enough? Also, single DES in 2015 -- amazing.
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by moyix 11y ago
You're correct; I was thinking of L^p (p > 1) convergence almost everywhere.
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by moyix 11y ago
In Fourier analysis, everything is just a bunch of sinusoids ;) And it seems to me that there are also sawtooth patterns that aren't clearly the alignment of lots of sinusoidal patterns, such as market bubbles.
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by moyix 11y ago
Could you elaborate on what polyclonal means here? Does it mean that they might not have detected fungus after all, but some other thing that would activate the same antibodies?
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by moyix 11y ago
The paper mentions in passing in the discussion section: "Moreover, antifungal treatment in two patients diagnosed with AD reversed clinical symptoms [51,52]. The interpretation of these results was that perhaps these patients were mis
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by moyix 11y ago
Another list of "accidentally Turing complete" languages is here: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet... Edit: Oops, I see this is already linked in the main article as “accidentally
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Basic Block Versioning – My Best Result Yet(pointersgonewild.com)
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by moyix 11y ago
Sure; the 500 mile email comes to mind (it gets reposted here periodically): http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by moyix 11y ago
The article mentions that dolphins are the only species known to use names in the wild, but that's not quite true: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/07/dont_call_me_polly_parr...
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by moyix 11y ago
Apparently some of these are reprogrammable by just rewriting the onboard I2C EEPROM: http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2012/10/hacking-usb-web... Could be a fun weekend project.
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by moyix 11y ago
Typically the condition testing for a conditional is done inside the debugger, not inside the patched code. The reason for this is that the conditions can be quite complex, and require debug symbol resolution. And this takes up a lot of spa
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by moyix 11y ago
If you're interested in reading more about the various kinds of runtime code patching used in Linux, there was a nice paper on it at last year's Malware Memory Forensics Workshop: Slides: https://www.acsac.org/2014
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by moyix 11y ago
But clang can be.
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by moyix 11y ago
It's also worth reading Scott Aaronson's (fairly meaty, it seems to me) objection to IIT: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
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by moyix 11y ago
Yeah, it's quite common in the US in CS. I think you may also be confused because "professor" in the US is still used even for the lowest-ranked tenure-track positions (and even for adjuncts).
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by moyix 11y ago
Well, this other bit from the comment might explain it: > I really hope that there are people working on viral vectors to use with this technology...
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by moyix 11y ago
AFL-Fuzz is great, but it isn't going to find everything. Some things I can think of that might make finding this difficult with afl-fuzz: * Flash is a scripting language. It's very hard for a fuzzer with no domain knowledge (like
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by moyix 11y ago
From the paper: > This is because objects that end up being moved to the regular (unsafe) stack are usually large arrays or variables that are used through multiple stack frames. Moving such objects away from the safe stack increases th
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by moyix 11y ago
Return-oriented programming is an exploit technique that relies on reusing snippets of existing code (called gadgets ) in a program in order to carry out attacker code. Each gadget generally ends with a return instruction, which causes it
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A Neural Conversational Model [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by moyix 11y ago
Yup. These weren't as exciting as I'd hoped. The former (eurion_attention.mp4) basically shows a sliding window of what pixels had computation done on them over time; the most recent 1000 bytes (~330 pixels) get "lit up"

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