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by odyssey7 3y ago
They’re already undetectable for most —- media consumers are currently making their own judgement calls to distinguish deepfakes, based on their intuition and what strangers and friends on the internet tell them. They may be detectable in t
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Two scenarios for testing experimental cancer therapies for dogs. Either you use the experimental therapy to treat cancers when they naturally occur in dogs, or you somehow give cancer to otherwise healthy dogs and then use the therapies to
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So it is a legitimate concern after all?
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Though the traveler may not be particularly interesting, their employer’s trade secrets or database access might be up there.
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More casualties of the war on drugs. Anyone who takes a schedule ii medication has the potential for botched care due to some diversion scheme.
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Would decompilation be closer to arithmetic or translation?
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Swift is such a fun language, so I’m glad seeing its ecosystem expand.
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iOS?
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Consider that JavaScript is more multi-platform than Java, but is also dynamically typed and interpreted, just like Python.
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Could you explain more of the reasoning for Bitcoin and Ethereum being proof of non-existence of a useful quantum computer?
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A 51% attack would cause enough pandemonium. A state actor could do that using technology the public already knows about.
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Consider what the bombe could do and how prized a secret it was. There is no non-existence proof of a quantum computer with an analogous role today.
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I’ve heard about the paradox of announcing plans before. It is intriguing. In light of the need for community, talking about plans might be seen as a way to search for ideas that could have group buy-in and become something to undertake tog
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Nice try
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Sadly I sense something amuck against the functional paradigm as well. Paul Graham wrote back in 2001 that Lisp was a secret weapon for building a startup due to the developer productivity gains. https://paulgraham.com/avg.h
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I think it’s not as widely recognized as it could be just how forward-looking ECMAScript was in introducing language updates in the mid 2010s. For instance, arrow functions make it natural to work with partial application, a currying-adjace
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Nitpick: JS is multi-paradigm.
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I agree with everything you wrote. There’s an element in this that gets at why V8’s omission of TCO feels to me like suppression of functional programming. JavaScript is an incredible widely used multi-paradigm language, to the point that I
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ECMAScript continues to evolve and I suspect that there would have been an effort to make the spread operator into a sort of cons in JavaScript. It could have worked for both arrays and objects. However, after seeing that the entry-level ba
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I don’t think the example is particularly good. TCO is essential in functional programming, where recursion shines, but the example given is an impure function which mutates its input parameter by calling Array.prototype.push. Basically, th
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“I believe I have omitted mentioning that, in my first voyage from Boston, being becalm'd off Block Island, our people set about catching cod, and hauled up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck to my resolution of not eating animal food,
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I have to wonder, why is this criticism showing up now? Who would benefit from taking him down a peg at this current point in time, and how?
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Like Bletchley Park during the last world war, the best-case scenario for intelligence is that the government has quantum computers that break public-key encryption and nobody finds out. It’s hard to know what machines exist behind the scen
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The comment is invalid CSS to apply the Knuth-Plass algorithm in rendering an HTML article. Knuth being a perfectionist’s perfectionist, TeX uses this algorithm to determine optimal line breaks to provide for better text justification. Here
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article { text-justify: Knuth-Plass; }
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What happened in response to the discovery that some blockchains have been contaminated with the same?
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I wonder if a-linguistic thought could work too. Maybe figure out what your dog is thinking or dreaming about, based on a dataset of signals associated with their everyday activities. It seems like outputting a representation of embodied ex
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How do you create an organizational culture that prevents these dynamics?
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This is the description of a workaround for dealing with tail recursion being broken in V8. It doesn’t add up if V8 is withholding TCO under the guise that it would cause programmers to write stack overflow bugs unless a new proposed keywor
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If I try to trace through the risk profile of bringing TCO into software engineers’ toolkits, it seems that the fear would be of the software engineers growing recursion-happy and writing functions that overflow the stack by inadvertently n

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