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by nihzm 2y ago
> I am just looking for the right reference to learn it properly. I once took a course that was mostly based on these two textbooks - Noncooperative Game Theory: An introduction for Engineers and Computer Scientists (Hespanha) - Populati
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by nihzm 2y ago
It is possible, at least in principle, to have people trust that techonolgies such as E2E are secure and reliable. Indeed in some countries that is the case, but my point was slightly different. If you concede that we cannot have everyone u
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by nihzm 2y ago
But do you agree that there needs to be something that keeps reinforcing the collective trust in the voting system such that this worst case scenario is not reached? If so, do you have an idea what that something could be when using a c
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by nihzm 2y ago
> It's enough for the average voter to trust that some other people - independent experts - are able to verify the vote. I don't agree. This is plausible within a coesive electorate, but it feels like moving the problem. What g
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by nihzm 2y ago
This would be more realistic, and everyone can still understand it, so it is another good example. The point was to provide an extreme system to highlight the value of simplicity in the dynamics of trust in a voting system.
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by nihzm 2y ago
> Why do you think it's harder to count votes? I assumed this from the parent post >> Something being hard does not mean that it should not be tried. As opposed to paper voting, which does not have the issues raised by Tom S
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by nihzm 2y ago
> Voting doesn't have to be any different From your long sibling thread I gather that for you it is more important to be able to verify the votes by yourself through the output of the voting system (the excel example) than to be a
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by nihzm 2y ago
Suppose for the sake of the argument we implement such methods that bring the level of security of the digital vote to be mostly equivalent to paper voting (though I do not think this is possible). Then why do you think it would be better t
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by nihzm 2y ago
> vote on policy matters in real time to make things more democratic Discussion, debades and more generally exchanging opinions with others and pondering the options before committing to a decision are important if not essential for prop
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by nihzm 2y ago
I suspect few comments are missing the more subdle nature of the author's argument, which is buried in the rather complicated jargon of the field. The authors are NOT arguing that ML models cannot work in science, that the examples the
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by nihzm 2y ago
> This indicates that the persona that this platform created for you is quite homogenous and probably matches closely with many other personas on the platform To add to this analysis, I think there may also be a feedback component to thi
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by nihzm 2y ago
I hope this is sarcasm, but if it isn't washing machine cycles have a fixed duration so a timer on your phone is more than enough, no cloud necessary.
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by nihzm 2y ago
While I also disagree with the post, my take on it was it is more a critique of the increasing hyperspecialization of mathematical problems. Of course the number of mathematical problems is endless, but I also feel that they are becoming mo
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by nihzm 2y ago
> I have a hard time believing that hunter gathers in tiny tribes traveling on foot with primitive weapons could have hunted and wiped out entire species of large animals from continents. I wish they would give more specifics. This made
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by nihzm 2y ago
I also think this is a better solution compared to the other suggesions. ML for audio and computer vision are both very interesting but absolutely not easy / short projects, from my limited experience it was never as straightforward as
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by nihzm 2y ago
Adapted from the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01537 and they have an interesting C++ library https://github.com/artivis/manif (I am not affiliated with this)
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Lie Theory for the Roboticist (2020) [video](youtube.com)
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by nihzm 3y ago
PID control becomes kinda useless as soon as you have a coupled high dimensional system, think something like a drone with aerodynamics or a robot a high number of DOF. There are of course patches so that you can still apply multiple PIDs b
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by nihzm 3y ago
From my understanding nowadays SDP solvers are becoming well developed, even the open source ones. Also, from my limited experience it is usually the case that the problem being cast into an SDP has no other good ways of solving it, so poly
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by nihzm 3y ago
Looks quite neat, but as other have pointed out I do not really see how this is different from traditional HDL languages such as verilog and VHDL. I say this because by looking a bit into atopile examples I only saw easy "digital"
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by nihzm 3y ago
Right now, One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García. I have been taking a break from scifi and nonfiction to enjoy some classics. The latest book I've read just before this one were 1. The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno
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by nihzm 3y ago
Please refrain from writing comments like these. From the HN guidelines Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be inte
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by nihzm 3y ago
I think what you're missing is that DP is not an algorithm in itself, but rather a theorem. I also didn't knew about this for a long time. Quoting from [1, §4] > It should be stressed, here and elsewhere, that the DP functi
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by nihzm 3y ago
Exactly! I have already linked it in another thread but see this link below for the mathematical definition of dynamic programming: https://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/DP_Slides.pdf
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by nihzm 3y ago
Not quite, actually Dijkstra is a special case of what are called label correcting methods / algorithms (LCA) [1], which come directly from applying dynamic programming to the shortest path problem. LCA apply to all finite graphs with
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by nihzm 3y ago
Slavic languages in general seem to have retained this case and gender dependent declination of numbers, making them rather difficult to learn. For example most languages on this list [1] have complex declension tables for the number two.
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by nihzm 3y ago
You're right, in southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria (?) it is still widely used in everyday life. It's interesting how northern dialects "choose" zwei while the southern ones preferred zwo. Also, IIRC in some regi
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by nihzm 3y ago
A tangentially related interesting note is that in German zwo also meant two, and so did zween. In old German some numbers were gendered and zwo is the feminine form. The only form that is used today "zwei" is the netuer form. Som
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by nihzm 3y ago
> probabilistic programming language whose operations are under the same amount of noise as a cell The reason for the probabilistic nature is that biological "computations" are eletrochemical reactions and feedback loops, which
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by nihzm 3y ago
Related to the first answer: Tim Blais on youtube has made a catchy "edutainment" song [1] on molecular machines based on A. Leigh's research (eg [2]) with some cool animations that show how electrochemical "switches&quo

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