ohmygodel

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by ohmygodel 13y ago
It does in the following senses: 1. Anonymity is provided as long as there is a single trustworthy member, regardless of how many phony members there are. 2. Denial-of-service resistance is provided even against many Sybils - eventually the
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by ohmygodel 13y ago
Two problems with unscheduled communications: 1. It allows the adversary to disrupt communications by continuously sending junk. Solving this problem was a major goal of Dissent not adequately handled by previous designs based on Dining C
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by ohmygodel 13y ago
I am current on this research. The group for anonymous communication in Dissent is formed using unspecified means. It could be everybody who signed up in the last month, obtained a credential from some authority, has a key within the web of
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by ohmygodel 15y ago
For what it's worth, it occurred to me right away. If you spend any time learning about and solving continuous optimization problems, one of the first patterns you notice is the existence of criteria that narrow possible optima to a finite
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by ohmygodel 15y ago
I'm so sorry. I was lucky to be able to spend some time with him (and you) at PETS08 in Leuven.
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
His arguments suggest that optimal nutrition is close to what we ate as hunter-gatherers. I wonder if Diamond believes in the paleo diet.
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
You need to divide by 3! and 2!. One way to look at it is that every selection of five from the 4M and 10F is equally likely. There are \binom{14}{5} (i.e. 14 choose 5) such selections. Of these, \binom{4}{3} * \binom{10}{2} have exactly 3M
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
P2P anonymization is tricky. Making it scalable means that each member of the network isn't aware of every other member, and therefore a small malicious set of peer may be able to "capture" the routes of nodes that only know them or rely on
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
I went specifically looking for this information a week ago when I was learning Python. It wasn't clear to me how a list was implemented, and in particular if random access and deletes were constant or linear time
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
I love this. It's an honest and unapologetic explanation of a parenting style that is not dominant in the US but has some real advantages. It teaches discipline and hard work, and it gets kids to acquire useful skills. Sure, it has its d
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
Niche venues cater to specialists in an area. Even in specialized areas there is more output than an expert can keep up with, and these smaller venues generally perform valuable filtering as well. "my brain hasn't collapsed from the inrush
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
"As a frequent reader of papers in CS I'm of the opinion that peer review is accomplishing very little outside of checking theoretical results with proofs that can be vetted." As a frequent reader and reviewer of CS papers I totally disagre
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
"the 10,000 years since the advent of agriculture is a very small evolutionary time step" True, although those 10,000 (I've actually heard 20-40K) years are the most recent ones in our evolution and therefore have more direct bearing on our
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
First, I dispute that good-tasting foods all make you feel bad shortly afterwards. Just as one example, sugary foods make you release all kinds of happy chemicals as you eat it, and that high alone lasts for a while. Second, simply eating
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
OK, that is a valid data point. In my own experience, when I increased the amount of vegetables (mostly green vegetables) I was eating, I felt bad for weeks until I adjusted.
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
Thanks for the effort, but seems to be a pretty rough link blast. Maybe there are some diamonds in here, but many certainly miss the point. "Weight Loss As the Paleo diet is by nature pretty low-carbohydrate": Paleo is not necessarily low-
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
I guess that could be the reason. It does strain credulity, though, that our bodily systems would be so brittle in this case. It reminds me instead of religious adherents, who, when faced with the misfortune of a fellow believer, blame th
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
If you consume something out of the ordinary, your body is not used to digesting it. For example, the necessary enzymes and bacteria are not likely to be in large supply. Also, you may be hyper- or hypo- sensitive to neurotransmitters (li
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
"I'm slightly ranting but I think, food wise, the best way to judge whether or not something is good for you is quite simply, how it makes you feel immediately afterwards... I really think it's that simple." Sorry, this really doesn't make
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
I think it's irresponsible to recommend a diet to people that has little to no scientific support for the kinds of effects that you promise or imply: weight loss, improved physical and mental health, and longevity. In fact, some possible i
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by ohmygodel 16y ago
I follow a paleo diet strictly on weekdays, and for probably 75% of my calories on weekends. I've been doing this for a few months. I'm basically doing this as an experiment - the argument that we should eat what we evolved eating is comp