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by xorand 8y ago
https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/ Blog of a mathematician with interests in computation, geometry, open science.
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More like you live in another country and you leave and later discover that when people who know you there look for you, they find out your are on a list of offenders, for a reason known only by the police from that country. https:/&#
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I think the discussion is a bit myopic. Yes, this is horrible news for the new aggregators of content. What about the creators of content? What if authors hodl their copyright (or else be filtered)[1] Who keeps google, facebook and others t
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The identity function is collision free. It's the fastest one.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19150914
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To close this discussion, I propose a law (maybe in EU) that any interaction with a social media corporation has to be mediated by a provable legal advice from a professional. In this way all these discussions which mix the moral side (user
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All evidence is at Twitter. There is no way to verify any hypothesis without access to what Twitter has, including the hypothesis that the most users on Twitter are not bots. But everybody is free to have any opinion based on the interact
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You are right. Moreover, never give any personal information to any social media corporation, right? There is also an advantage for Twitter: they can claim that they still have active users which are not bots.
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What's the point? Then why does Twitter verify if there is another account by the same name name when one opens an account? They could just associate the password with a concatenation of the username with a random number. The same poin
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Perhaps, but when someone tries to open an account then Twitter checks first if the name is taken. Therefore how hard would it be for them to keep all the used names and verify first? This is just a hypothesis, only Twitter knows. Another h
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> I want people to walk away from Twitter feeling like they learned something and feeling empowered to some degree. It depresses me when that’s not the general vibe, and inspires me to figure it out. That’s my desire Last year, in March
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Google left for another dimension and they needed all their computing power for that, so they resorted to this trick. The results we see are from a NN previously trained on the real google, which is now hosted by a computer in the janitor
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> in modern Biology, the concept of "imperfect replicator" is foundational Can you share some references to this concept? Google Scholar with "imperfect replicator" doesn't help me much. Thank you.