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by abhv 12d ago
This is a very impressive result. Bravo to that team.
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by abhv 3mo ago
I don't understand the negativity here. He is a top expert on a security topic. Running Android platform security gives him an opportunity to have incredible positive impact for many people---which he did for a decade. People weigh tra
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An attempt at a First-Proof AI challenge(abhvio.us)
1 points by abhv 7mo ago|1 comments
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by abhv 7mo ago
How to Stop Worrying and Start Using AI
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by abhv 10mo ago
20+2 (conditional support) versus 7. 22/29 = 76% in some form of "yea" That feels like "rough consensus"
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by abhv 1y ago
(1) in this case, an identity issuer provides the source of truth identity information. Examples include state DMV, your passport (you can try "Id pass" in Google wallet), etc. (2) One of the goals of this project was to layer ZK
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by abhv 1y ago
My colleague Amit made a simple video explanation about zkp with Wired. https://youtu.be/fOGdb1CTu5c?si=EyBQS92WyeduIpH- That doesn't explain the way this scheme works, but it's a nice start.
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Google using ZK for age assurance(blog.google)
6 points by abhv 1y ago|0 comments
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by abhv 1y ago
-- ID passes in UK, Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico and West Virginia. -- ZK technology for age assurance.
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Google Wallet integrates zero-knowledge proofs for identity(blog.google)
12 points by abhv 1y ago|1 comments
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by abhv 3y ago
successive keys on adjacent rows of your qwERTy keyboard
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by abhv 3y ago
If you owe the bank $10m, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $10b, you own the bank.
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by abhv 3y ago
See also this thread from yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147914 "Thousands of scientists are cutting back from Twitter" Essentially, a survey published in Nature about twitter usage among scient
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by abhv 3y ago
This is a case study for an undergrad statistics or responsible journalism class. * for traffic see the small note "all values rebased to 100" they are likely hiding the significance of the increase * for the app downloads graph:
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by abhv 3y ago
i certainly don't do clickbait. no links to the original or anything. i thought the content was this observation. i'm trying to use whisper.cpp to get transcripts for the older ones.
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by abhv 3y ago
i was skeptical. But these four probably do 100 meetings a week each, many about new deals with new founders. They hear a lot of smart ideas and the best of those are going to leak out when the videos are all about trying to sound smart.
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Did Chamath short Credit Suisse?(abhvio.us)
21 points by abhv 3y ago|14 comments
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by abhv 3y ago
Maybe never...but he had the signal 2 weeks ago in E118.
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by abhv 4y ago
Stripe charges 2.9% + 30c per transaction. From that, about 1.3% + 5c per tx go to interchange + assessment fees. This leaves about 1.6% + 25c for the payment processor. 14.3 on 816b is about 1.7% which is consistent. On 1T, that means abou
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by abhv 4y ago
Perfectly conceivable that Arvind is punking us all by using an Llm to write that essay. Very basic stuff for someone who usually has subtle points to make.
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by abhv 4y ago
A Turing Award winner (keeping it anonymous) related a similar story to me about his phd qualifier exam (when I was taking mine). This winner is a theoretical computer scientist who skipped most of his computer hardware courses. Near the
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by abhv 4y ago
I totally agree with you. The hutli experience is also very special for different reasons.
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by abhv 4y ago
low season, long weekend, 1850chf. We are a family of 5, and in Switzerland, that means 2 hotel rooms x 3 nights. Staying in Zumthor's cabin is certainly a splurge, but marginal utility of staying in a special place well exceeds margi
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by abhv 4y ago
+1 even more so, because I could see the small flaws and gaps that Zumthor may tolerate in a personal dwelling, but may not fly in large-scale projects. Lesson for me: perfection isn't necessary for the experiences I want from exceptio
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by abhv 4y ago
-- Indeed, we didn't want to support that hotel, which is why we stayed in Leis. I'll add that to my post. -- Like everything in Switzerland, it was easy to reserve spots online. I think we went on a Monday. Therme Vals is a we
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by abhv 4y ago
1-- First snow of the season occurred our first night. My memory is that the walls never felt cold. We started a fire using that granite cylinder fireplace. You pack it with about 12 logs, light it and then shut the door tightly. It bu
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by abhv 4y ago
We also visited Therme Vals; that was the point of our trip. While I love the majesty of stone Vals, which have these huge stone slabs that hang above your head with small gaps, his houses in Leis are the human-scale version of his emotiona
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by abhv 4y ago
Hiking, skiing, exploring. Some people still raise goats, sheep, animals in the high mountain country. They make exquisite local cheese from the milk.
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Staying in Zumthor's Swiss Wooden Cabin(abhvio.us)
45 points by abhv 4y ago|29 comments
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by abhv 4y ago
(1) Any theory that encourages people to suspect working directly on important local causes that are meaningful to them, but instead, seek out the highest paying jobs in order to donate to EA causes is just hiding a special kind of ponzi

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