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by pastel8739 11mo ago
I know very little about ZKPs, but it does indeed sound like there is a notion of “computational zero knowledge”. I don’t know whether digital signatures would meet that definition or not, or if it’s algorithm-dependent.
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by pastel8739 11mo ago
I don’t think this is strictly true, but I do think it’s true that college GPA is not a differentiating factor.
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by pastel8739 11mo ago
I think it’s the original quote that is unclear: > a digital signature proves your possession of a private key without revealing that key. Signatures do not themselves do this; but they can be used to construct a protocol that does (e.g.
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by pastel8739 11mo ago
I think even aside from that (which can be solved with challenge-response) digital signatures are typically not ZKPs because the signature itself constitutes information that must be transferred during the proof.
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by pastel8739 11mo ago
Really? To me it seems hard to believe that small-scale manufacturing could ever meaningfully compete with economies of scale.
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by pastel8739 11mo ago
This feels like it makes a lot of assumptions: 1. That just because a region doesn’t have enough potable water to support humans and data centers, it also doesn’t have enough potable water to support the humans alone. 2. That the temporary
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by pastel8739 1y ago
If you actually use the live collaboration features of overleaf, sure, it’s not a replacement. But lots of people use overleaf to write latex by themselves. The experience is just so much worse than developing locally and tracking changes w
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by pastel8739 1y ago
I have a sad semi-fantasy, semi-fear, that AI will show us that everything we do online is rather pointless and force us back into the real world (this would cause me and most of this site to lose our jobs, hence the fear part)
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by pastel8739 1y ago
Though the birthday paradox is concerned with self-collisions, I think since these are explicitly collisions with other objects it feels less paradoxical to compute
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by pastel8739 1y ago
Regardless of whether you think understanding is important, it’s clear from this thread that a lot of people find understanding valuable. In order to trust an AI with decisions that affect people, people will want to believe that the AI “un
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by pastel8739 1y ago
Is it really so rare? I feel like I know of tons of fields where we have methods that work empirically but don’t understand all the theory. I’d actually argue that we don’t know what’s “actually” happening _ever_, but only have built enough
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by pastel8739 1y ago
And even then, the light hitting our human eyes only describes a fraction of all the light in the world (e.g. it is missing ultraviolet patterns on plants). An LLM model of the world is shaped by our human view on the world.
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by pastel8739 1y ago
You can host it yourself, right?
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by pastel8739 1y ago
All this device ever does is publish results, so it’s not clear what interacting directly would mean
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by pastel8739 1y ago
Nearly all off the shelf weather station parts use 433Mhz or similar bands. It’s likely that if you have any preexisting wireless temp sensors, etc that transmit to an indoor display, you can use those with a system like this. I also think
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by pastel8739 1y ago
> We can just compliment a writer on their writing I'm fairly confident that this article is primarily AI-written as well
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by pastel8739 1y ago
I hear this argument a lot, but it doesn’t hold water for me. Obviously the use of the AI is the thing that makes it worthwhile to do the training, so you obviously need to amortize the training cost over the inference. I don’t know whether
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by pastel8739 1y ago
You are simply wrong. Mechanical engineering majors, as an example of the most common non-CS major, don’t have any such high-paying opportunities until at least after a PhD (and even then they are lower than you are saying). Many make less
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by pastel8739 1y ago
> My net worth isn't $12m at 29, it's a tenth that This honestly reads like you are just bragging about how successful you are. I think you know this, but if you made $150k at 22 and have a net worth of $1M at 29, you are far m
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by pastel8739 1y ago
I am nearly sure that you are not arguing in good faith, but just the fact that you think all elite school grads make $500k shows that you have not talked to a nearly representative sample. I went to an elite school and have friends that ma
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by pastel8739 1y ago
MIT has Lincoln Lab which, while not a DoE national lab, serves a pretty similar purpose for DoD.
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by pastel8739 1y ago
China’s building tons of solar and wind, too. If we’re interested in keeping up with them, we could start by not cancelling already planned solar projects ( https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/feds-appear-to-canc...
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by pastel8739 1y ago
Notably, the language in the compact does not limit legal intervention to those violent actions. It requires action against even peaceful protesting in a library, or even in a hallway or outdoor area (as a student I often studied in both of
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by pastel8739 1y ago
I really find it surprising how often people bring up endowments as if they are a resource that can be spent. The purpose of an endowment is to produce revenue via investment income; that investment income is already reflected in the operat
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by pastel8739 1y ago
It's quite possible that an organization has multiple morals, and standing by one moral might feasibly compromise another---choosing which of these morals to violate might be difficult.
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by pastel8739 1y ago
DLSR stands for Digital Single-Lens Reflex. An a6700 is indeed digital, has a single lens, and is undoubtedly a camera. All it’s missing is a reflex mechanism. So I’d say that in four out of five ways, it is indeed a DSLR camera.
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by pastel8739 1y ago
The more smart people we have working on the world's hardest problems, the more likely it is that we'll have breakthroughs that make the world better
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by pastel8739 1y ago
What exactly are “such things” that should cause us not to trust? Executing programs?