periheli0n

12 ms·

91.
by periheli0n 5y ago
100% agree. Great achievement by the 13 year old but insinuating that this device can detect pneumonia is utterly misleading.
92.
by periheli0n 5y ago
True, but there are things where AI can help. For example, in the domain of electronic gas sensors, AI can be used to disentangle confounding variables like gas, humidity and temperature. All three affect the sensor output in a nonlinear
93.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> It has worked pretty well for the last 2,500 years with voters possessing extremely questionable education. Early democracies often restricted the right to vote to specific parts of the population. Also if anything has become clear in
94.
by periheli0n 5y ago
My point is that the monetary value one could put on education is bound to neglect the real value of education. How do you express the value of education for a functioning democracy in monetary terms for an individual? How to express the mo
95.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> There is no way around the idea that education, like everything else, costs resources, time and money, that can be spent on other things. It's a totally valid thing to wonder whether it's the best use of that money there is.
96.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> The monetary value itself is useful to everybody who makes a decision. But I think the real value of education can't be expressed in monetary terms alone. Educated people tend to live longer and healthier. They tend to make more r
97.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> The whole country struggled to produce just a little more than one American university. They may think more independently, but it seems that it was so independent as to fail to advance human knowledge much more than a single American u
98.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Isn't the real problem the economisation of education? The desire to express the value of education in monetary terms is really only useful for those running education businesses, like e.g. many of today's universities in the US a
99.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Sorry for the imprecise phrasing. During training, patterns are stored in the network parameters. The query will naturally be similar to one or several of the patterns stored, which are then returned (in hopfield-speak "completed"
100.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Indeed it has long been known that the awake human brain operates near a critical point. Unfortunately, their significance statement is very generic and doesn't really summarise their main contributions. The abstract has more informati
101.
by periheli0n 5y ago
A transformer network is a variant of associative memory. You give it a query and it returns a value that it has learned to associate with the query during training.
102.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Agreed, sci-hub is so much more convenient. But when the publishers finally shut it down for good, we'll have to find another solution. A community of scientists sharing their papers would be a good thing already now. I personally know
103.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Agreed, in that case that wouldn't work. But honestly, how often does one have to skim that many papers in a day, to a level where the freely available abstract is not sufficient? Perhaps every once in a while when one compiles a surve
104.
by periheli0n 5y ago
I have signed quite a few of those copyright transfer forms, and there are always a clause that would allow sharing on a personal basis.
105.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Sci-hub is sometimes the last resort to obtain a resource that is otherwise unobtainable. But what has become of the old way of obtaining unaccessible papers: Ask the authors for a copy? Sites like ResearchGate make this very easy. And ofte
106.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> anyone can pay their way in those journals and publish (sometimes sub par) papers. This is not true and comments like this are damaging to science. Open Access papers are still peer-reviewed and by far not all of them make it into the
107.
by periheli0n 5y ago
This is how Android does security AFAIK — every app is run as a different user.
108.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Well, it still works, but the UX is terrible, and usually one has to reload the page after something like 20 clicks or so because it stops responding or UX elements disappear. So yeah, not really that subtle, I agree.
109.
by periheli0n 5y ago
The real problem is not that we have to run the software, it is that we run it on devices that usually store a huge fraction of our personal life, and which we rely on every day to run our lives.
110.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Well, there is AppArmor and SELinux which AFAIU could fence in individual apps. It's just not exactly trivial to set up without breaking the app.
111.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Reddit as a point in case. They deliberately break their mobile web version subtly to coerce users to install their app. Shudder.
112.
by periheli0n 5y ago
True, but then again this raises the question why a browser is needed for sandboxing; it could just as well be done on OS level. And it is done on MacOS, although I don't know whether the amount of sandboxing it does is comparable to w
113.
by periheli0n 5y ago
> I had assumed Android and PC had adopted the randomized MACs apple uses to prevent such tracking? True, and this is why I rarely switch it off, except in situations where I don't want to be visible to devices that I previously con
114.
by periheli0n 5y ago
OK, so the actual communication (the call itself) will be transmitted over wifi. But this means that at least some kind of access token must be transmitted over ultrasound. Is this safe? I would love to see an analysis of that communication
115.
by periheli0n 5y ago
OK, but to be fair, at least MacOS also asks for file access permissions, and indicates if the mic is being used with the orange dot that this thread is about. So when running zoom in the browser, it could still keep the mic open and listen
116.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Isn't this just moving the problem, instead of solving it? The fact that browser APIs are so capable these days also means they enable almost the same opportunities for spying or creating other havoc, doesn't it? Especially if it
117.
by periheli0n 5y ago
But how is the device going to communicate with the zoom hardware in the room when Bluetooth is disabled?
118.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Join the advertising segment of completely and totally uninteresting people. The societal equivalent of the Bose-Einstein condensate. But they still have your IP address which they can use as a signal!
119.
by periheli0n 5y ago
Interesting... they just now switched to PAM and Python 3? And the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent installs from clashing? I knew that Slackware was rather bare-bones, but I didn't expect it to be that bare
120.
Solitary stellar-mass black hole found wandering through the Milky Way(physicsworld.com)
10 points by periheli0n 5y ago|0 comments

More ›