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by wfn 13y ago
(link seems not to work any longer, mirror: http://bayfiles.net/file/15Fqf/KfQTOj/nature12954.pdf )
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by wfn 13y ago
Full article for anyone curious: http://ge.tt/2O8mr1H1/v/0?c
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I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi.
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by wfn 13y ago
Just an FYI: that wiki link does not seem to lead to an article about the fallacy in question, or any kind of fallacy for that matter. You might have been thinking about the continuum fallacy[1], false equivocation, straw man, or red herrin
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> since 1983, [Randall Beer] became a neuroscience prof and mentions his BASIC LISP on his homepage > http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/ Just wanted to say thanks for linking to this fine chap. He seems to have a cros
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by wfn 13y ago
Blog entry: http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2013/12/finite-state-entr... Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540
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Finite State Entropy coder (faster than Huffman)(github.com)
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That's an interesting point. One way to approach it would be to say that it is an unconscious state because of the very fact that one cannot recall it. But this is surely not necessarily correct (works given certain assumptions about t
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by wfn 13y ago
This isn't relevant / applicable / the same because dreamless sleep would not involve consciousness (in most any sense/definition of the word), whereas meditation would. So your example doesn't really say anything,
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First of all, that would be property dualism, not substance dualism; property dualism is less controversial (in the sense that Descartes went with full-blown substance dualism, and screwed things up.) And second of all, I don't think t
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by wfn 13y ago
Indeed. And as a general rule, I would personally not trust these kinds of intuitions and insights - the overall introspection framework/method is, in my opinion, not a very much reliable tool. (People who have been practicing meditati
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Those API-like URLs seem to be timing out now. Consider adding caching (you might be able to simply enable caching-proxy-functionality at the webserver layer, e.g.)
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Thanks for your kind reply. Adversary model makes sense. I think security/privacy folk like reading up on them for a given project they might be curious about, perhaps consider putting this on the site? > A global passive adversary
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Thanks for your detailed response. I see quite a few people are involved, and the project is a truly active one; I wish you luck. :) One last inquiry: have you done any benchmarking / performance tests on your code? I imagine that sinc
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by wfn 13y ago
That sounds like a very nice and thought-through architecture/design. What's your current status / how far away are you from a more or less complete beta (e.g. in regards to the minecraft client) (if you don't mind me as
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by wfn 13y ago
> Currently working on an open source implementation of Minecraft Nice. Are you aiming to implement a thread-safe plugin API, perchance? The current problem with bukkit (and with vanilla minecraft server, of course) afaik is that wheneve
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The thing that you're working on falls within the area of 'truly relevant and important [to our times, etc.] software', IMO. Very nice and interesting indeed. I didn't notice any mention of an adversary model, do you hav
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Holy mother, this person is cool and this person's website is cool, too: http://www.oftenpaper.net/ (it even has an article on Arc coroutines, ha!)
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by wfn 13y ago
Ah, but the consistency of ZFC itself is undecidable from within ZFC! [1] I see what you're saying; it's quite the rabbit hole, however. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecidable...
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Furthermore, if only the DoD/whatever used Tor, "someone with Tor traffic going from/to them" would be a good-enough metric to locate DoD emplyees / government spies / etc. The idea is, that's why Tor cont
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by wfn 13y ago
Depends, I guess. I'd check out Debian and maybe, yes, Mint. The thing to realize is that you can use any kind of desktop environment on any of the main distros. With Ubuntu, moving from its default DE can sometimes result in certain h
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If you're motivated / curious enough / have enough time, I recommend Spivak's Calculus as a way of learning calculus the, as you say, 'proper (whatever that means) way.' It's basically a treatment of calcu
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by wfn 13y ago
To subscribe to 'the Guardian Weekly' (international physical+digital edition): https://www.myguardianweekly.co.uk/subscribe/ About Guardian Weekly: http://www.theguardian.com/weekly/subs
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More like, "set shared_buffers ", "set effective_cache_size ".. Also, seconding rgbrenner re: "Tuning your PostgreSQL server" article.
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> I hope that the media keeps focusing on the issues detailed by the whistleblowing, rather than the story of said whistleblowing. Of course, completely agree. > We shouldn't be distracted by a human interest story. But there is
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Nice, yes, thanks the reply, agree with everything. > This process only encrypts the email's body, and not the metadata (from, to, subject, headers containing IP addresses, etc). As a bunch of people have shown after the PRISM fallo
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I suspect lots of people are considering these kinds of designs these days. :) There's been some discussion on various mailing lists, usually assinine, but once in a while clever folk join in. > Another thing to do is limit how much
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> You'd also want your MTA to reject mail not sent over TLS. No matter what you do though if the remote server is compromised -- technically or legally -- your future emails are subject to capture. agree & agree. Overall, the em
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> If you have to customize the client anyway, you might as well encrypt the metadata. Yes, but then you'd need a custom extension, whereas the proposed setup would be covered by, e.g., Enigmail for Thunderbird. Depends on the userba
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by wfn 13y ago
Nice plan. I've also been brainstorming ideas - I'm now considering setting up something similar (though I have less knowledge in these matters): * encrypt all incoming mail to a public key associated with the recipient's ema

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