dgmdoug

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by dgmdoug 2y ago
They also don't do a comparison with Pied Piper.
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by dgmdoug 6y ago
I think the title here is overly inflammatory. To suggest there is a 'fair right' to data behind encryption for goverment use, to my mind, somewhat misses the point of encryption and privacy in general. This is the point I believe
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The Fall singer Mark E Smith dies aged 60(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by dgmdoug 9y ago|0 comments
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by dgmdoug 9y ago
If 14 year olds know more about the security vulnerabilities of our most highly adopted computer systems than the professionals which use and safeguard/build them, then it would say more about those professionals than the teens (a fact
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Tributes Paid to Professor Sir David MacKay(varsity.co.uk)
2 points by dgmdoug 10y ago|0 comments
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
"...and an agreement with everybody in the house to check before picking up the telephone handset." This! If anything I think the challenge provided us with a reason to explore. Things weren't always easy and that made it fun
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
What, 2? ;-)
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
I missed a trick it seems. Should have posted a link where I could track conversions. :-/
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
I'll weigh in on morgante's side here. What WB discusses is a common misconception. Just because it doesn't appear to work for yourself, doesn't mean that targeting is not worthwhile. It's not really designed for an
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News Corp completes £114m acquisition of Tech City darling Unruly(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by dgmdoug 11y ago|0 comments
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
It really worries me that the leader of our nation does not appear to have all the information required in order to make a decision on a topic as important as this. I would have thought that a domain expert within government would have be c
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
I concur -- travelling in Boston can be frustrating for those who are inexperienced. They use 'inbound' and 'outbound', but without knowledge of the centre point for that line this information is useless!
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by dgmdoug 11y ago
It was written in 2012 and is a fairly well known and accessible text! Pedro is an excellent speaker, if you ever get chance to hear him I highly recommend it.
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Find your nearest post box (UK)(dracos.co.uk)
1 points by dgmdoug 11y ago|0 comments
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by dgmdoug 12y ago
Isn't part of the problem that we place this artificial wall between academia and industry? I often found myself confused in this respect. I attained my PhD a number of years ago, and found this an invaluable experience, which has no d
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by dgmdoug 12y ago
Limited company in the UK generally as a tax efficiency for consultancy.
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by dgmdoug 13y ago
I think it's more to do with the application of parallel MC to approximate inference over Bayesian networks. In the normal case of approximate inference, each node would operate over the incoming data to approximate maximum likelihoods
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by dgmdoug 13y ago
I think the most dangerous thing here is the branding of research as something new, that Musk has invented. I worked in academic and industrial research for a number of years, and any work that was worth it's salt typically went back t