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by sterlind 3y ago
what about allowing authentication, rather than encryption? like, let people send MAC-protected checksums and signatures to make plaintext verifiable. I think it'd open up the possibilities of like, weather balloons streaming their tel
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by sterlind 3y ago
also a subplot in Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex. in a world of ubiquitous bionic eyes, Laughing Man manages to hack the eyeballs of everyone who looks at him to replace his head with an animated gif.
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by sterlind 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this take up. I couldn't quite put my finger on what I found off-putting about EA but the second option bias and hedging with footnotes, in retrospect, are what have made me uneasy about EA (and r
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by sterlind 3y ago
> I do know what apartheid is: it's what happened in South Africa, when two groups of people lived in the very same place (i.e., in the same towns and cities) and were treated differently by the state. https://en.m.wiki
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by sterlind 3y ago
I think a fairer comparison would be Toki Pona, a micro-language with ~120 words. you can express lots of things if you have a great deal of patience, Up-Goer Five style. In logic there's also SKI combinator calculus, which is Turing-c
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by sterlind 3y ago
psychopaths often have brain abnormalities, both in terms of activation (seen from fMRI studies) and actual physical white matter structure. [0] psychopaths are also evil. it's a personality disorder. it's not separable from the s
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by sterlind 3y ago
1. not your offspring unless it infects the germline. 2. citation needed. and dredging through that dumpster fire of an article OP posted, I see nothing besides some claims made by some biotechie who seems to angrily tweet about vaccine con
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by sterlind 3y ago
I'm super curious, what was this faith? the only ones I can think of are the Amish and Mennonites, but neither of those are going to take tech jobs in the first place.
549.
by sterlind 3y ago
what the hell? you're right, apparently. I'd set my router to use 1.1.1.1 a long time ago and forgotten about it. why does using cloudflare mess it up? how does that even work?
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by sterlind 3y ago
the kernel (tm)
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by sterlind 3y ago
As close as I can tell, Russians tend to be very fatalistic. It's never been a happy place. It's cold, the state is corrupt, life is cheap. But people have a strong personal need for justice, to find those guilty and make them pay
552.
by sterlind 3y ago
It's not always illegal in both countries. NSO Group openly offers hacking services to foreign governments, so presumably it's legal in Israel (as long as the targets aren't Israelis, of course!) Not that the CEO is getting e
553.
by sterlind 3y ago
So it's legal for me to hack into European datacenters, as long as I live and work elsewhere? I'm pretty sure interpol would still track me down and try to extradite, and I'm pretty sure extradition would succeed unless I&#x2
554.
by sterlind 3y ago
Sneaky. The Follow button appears to work, and persists across partial refreshes, but an actual browser refresh shows that nothing happened. I'm honestly not sure if the sneakiness is a UX bug or intentional.
555.
by sterlind 3y ago
"Arms manufacturers discuss concerns.." is precisely the kind of article I'd expect to see in Jane's Military Review, writing from the perspective of a Raytheon investor. It's a striking example of how sociopathic i
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by sterlind 3y ago
How do you arrive at several decades and billions of organisms? You can't extrapolate the current mutation rate to the spillover event; SARS-CoV-2 was already quite fit at infecting humans and didn't need to change much. In contra
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by sterlind 3y ago
the SARS-CoV-2 genome is ~29.8K nucleotides long. 96% of that sequence is identical to the genome of RaTG13, i.e. all but ~1200 match. for reference, SARS-CoV-1 is only 82% similar to SARS-CoV-2. at a mutation rate of 8*10^-4, this means th
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by sterlind 3y ago
Another lesson we should learn from the pandemic, aside from the risks of GoF research, is that searching for novel viruses in animals can be extremely dangerous. WIV collected samples from bat populations to find novel coronaviruses. Proce
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by sterlind 3y ago
Do you actually need GoF research to prevent animal spillovers? Did GoF research help us develop the COVID vaccines? Or does GoF research mostly demonstrate the risks of spillover? Because I think we're now well aware of the risks, and
560.
by sterlind 3y ago
information that Russia helped? Iran I can understand, but why would Russia help Hamas to launch a massacre? Russia's busy fighting one war already. Israel isn't even supporting Ukraine afaik. and they have nukes, and they're
561.
by sterlind 3y ago
everything? they've solved reinforcement learning? they can handle continuous domains, like robot motion? that's funny, I thought they could only handle sequences of tokens.* yes, they're exciting, and they are the most gener
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by sterlind 3y ago
an active war zone that happens to be home to a couple million people. why not tech, what else should they do for work? programming seems like a good fit, since you don't need heavy equipment that could be blockaded or blown up, or cro
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by sterlind 3y ago
This is precisely the kind of trolling 4chan loves to do. It ticks all the boxes: swatting, CP, hacktivism possibly if you squint really hard. And since these hashes are presumably resistant to cropping and scaling, they might be able to ta
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by sterlind 3y ago
You're saying that there are cryptographically-secure PhotoDNA-like hash algorithms? That's remarkable, if true, though I'm not sure if the schemes you're referring to are resistant to preimage recovery or hash collision
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by sterlind 3y ago
Interesting, I'm trying to understand (much less knowledgeable about finance than ML, heh.) But it sounds like you fed it the raw order books (no time dimension), a sequence of order states corresponding to each (a time series), mapped
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by sterlind 3y ago
Gah, this paper is hard to read, but here's my understanding: Let's say you have 100 intersections, and you want to predict the traffic on each in cars/sec. You sample every hour, and you keep 24 hours of context, and try to
567.
by sterlind 3y ago
So many of these seem commonplace now! Son of a gun, spanking (as in "brand spanking new" and the physical act, apparently), spick and span, scamp, and slum, randomly taken from the S-es alone. Surely not all from thieves' ca
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by sterlind 3y ago
No, it doesn't pick a single token based on a set of inputs. It predicts a probability distribution for the next token given the previous tokens. That's why techniques like beam search and Viterbi work so well - you don't ha
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by sterlind 3y ago
You'd sit for eternity if you suffered a lesion in your reticular activating system - a relatively small cluster of neurons that generates a kind of clock signal in animal brains. Coma patients with RAS lesions seem to visualize scenes
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by sterlind 3y ago
> I hope open source AI can have greater success, but the users are motivated by convenience and not freedom or privacy. Agreed, but that's actually helped open-source AI too! Stable Diffusion beat DALL-E 2 because you could actua

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