JacobEdelman

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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
This is, to a large extent, scaremongering. While there are some valid points made in the article, the article fails to differentiate between security problems that can be exploited by trolls or single, untrained individuals, and ones that
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
We wouldn't need to do this. One computer would suffice to generate primes at a pace making cracking computation infeasible. Though, even if we switch primes every few seconds, if somebody wanted to put a few hundred million dollars in
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
The problem is that there needs to be an agreed upon key that each of the parties knows before-hand. But yes, there are definitely viable ways to generate new ones or implement new, safer, standards. Alternatively, a much larger prime can b
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Also, a small sum of a billion dollars may be enough to convince a thousand residents of an island to leave.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
At this point I feel bad for Scott Aaronson. Everytime a crackpot paper comes out (and I'm 97% convinced at this point this is one of them) he takes the time to refute it on his blog.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
This isn't exactly Deep Dream's equivalent for video. It takes frames individually (smushing them together), rather than having a unified neural network that takes the entire video at once.
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Namecheap is Down(namecheap.com)
2 points by JacobEdelman 11y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
I wouldn't have much hope that its going to be addressed. I've been following another kickstarter scam, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/181239886/jaesa/descrip... , promising legitimate AI far b
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
That idea, if extended, could be rather entertaining. "White House Gov Account Hacked, Please Help"
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Wait, do they track who says what themselves? https://twitter.com/whispererly/status/615513760107732996
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
So, "a paper" and "a gigantic ostrich juggling American Space Kangaroo"?
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Bonus points: What if only one of them gets a coin to flip and then they must both come to an agreement on what the result was. They can talk but the NSA overhears everything they say and can crack every cipher they use. Can you maximize th
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
I've met him a few times and I've seen him speak. He definitely seems to be the kind of change we need.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
The end result of this is that I'm impressed with Virgin Media's quick responses on twitter.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
This is really really fine for apple to do as they are just creating an option for a highly curated app store. I mean, if they were attempting to criminalize loading 3rd party apps/using alternative app stores then it would be horrible
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
I upvoted this and now I feel ashamed. This article has a provocative title but in the end all it does is try to make a dramatic situation where there is none. I will be reading fusion.net articles with increased suspicion in the future.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
All of these systems are security by obscurity. Just suggesting them on a blog ruins them. Watermarking is not truly possible with current technology, which means you can't give someone something without given them control over it. Is
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Standardizing a package manager across platforms is nice and making homebrew for linux does this without just creating another package manager to support packages.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
I think rather than have a surprise objective they should remove the prizes, intense competition, and networking. Hackathons should be about coding something cool, not winning, networking, or partying.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Despite the optimistic tone in this article hackathons have definite problems. They have a contradiction between their party atmosphere and their high stakes. While they strive to provide an informal, fun event they also offer extremely lar
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Meet Users Where They Are(aaronweiss.us)
1 points by JacobEdelman 11y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
I'd be interested to know what type of programming competition is being talked about here. There is a world of difference between Hackathons and Algorithmic style competitions.
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An Embedded DSL for Verifiable Computing(github.com)
8 points by JacobEdelman 11y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
In this case I meant the bad press that results from a security leak.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
Companies should be implementing good security not because of the good press it will get them but because of the bad press it won't get them.
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by JacobEdelman 11y ago
The sad thing is that really cool, potentially world changing, crypto has been created in the past few years but its not the crypto that gets media coverage. Concepts like Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Secure Obfuscation may revolutioniz
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Despite my initial excitement at seeing a senator advocate for some patent reform a review of Senator Hatch's history left me less excited. He has supported copyright extension, and advocated for COICA. It seems he only cares about int
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Steam Censors Mentions of Kickass.to Torrent Site(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I can't think of any use case for this that you can't already get with hardware random number generators that computers have built-in. For most people TRNG's are only useful for things like generating keys and such, something
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JS Neural Networks Learning to Write Like Paul Graham(cs.stanford.edu)
3 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|0 comments

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