j2kun

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by j2kun 3d ago
Reminds me of the old parable: never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced. If the US gov't passed laws and enforced them strongly, this problem could be solved the same way the gov't solves it: air-gapping the
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by j2kun 5d ago
The government presses charges against OpenAI. Obviously. This is a felony.
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by j2kun 14d ago
It would be nice if Maps would prefer data from government DBs that have localized versions of foreign place name data (e.g., Germany's BKG) when available.
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by j2kun 14d ago
It's DecorMyEyes for a new generation of tech.
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by j2kun 15d ago
They're also the ones making up all the MAUs of Facebook. /shrug
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by j2kun 15d ago
You must not talk to a lot of retired people, for whom every tech product is a bewildering nightmare.
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by j2kun 16d ago
I do get a bit tired of Hanabi when the "fixated" players all agree on a bunch of conventions ahead of time (e.g., if you don't know what to do or you are forced to play, always play your leftmost card, and put your most rece
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by j2kun 1mo ago
You might enjoy my book https://pimbook.org/ , which includes chapters on linear algebra.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
Under "related searches" it suggests "kidney dissatisfaction", and indeed: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38&q=%22...
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by j2kun 1mo ago
The first link has a misleading name. Instead use these two links for a better picture: https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption/tree/... https://fhe-benchmarking.github.io/
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by j2kun 1mo ago
The linked repository has demos you can run (though you have to install bazel), and some of the smaller models run inference in about a second, while the larger ones take minutes. That said, there is a lot of ongoing work on GPU acceleratio
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by j2kun 1mo ago
Indeed, Google itself has a large research group that repeatedly breaks TEEs with side-channels and such.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
One potentially simple answer is: to make things that are otherwise illegal (for regulatory reasons) possible. There are some instances of hand-built cryptographic protocols used in production at Google that use FHE in small doses (e.g., co
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by j2kun 1mo ago
You can make anything shallow by just not thinking about it. Conversely, the way things become deep is because we intellectualize them.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
Indeed, I think Instagram may be all they have left, brand-wise.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
What a dismal idea that a four-year-old device is non-functional and in need of "reviving."
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by j2kun 1mo ago
FTA: > In late July, the Metro Council approved new zoning and related restrictions on data center development and implemented a moratorium on new permit approvals to run through Dec. 1.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
I recommend touching grass.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
No, this is more like checks and balances: the state, the public, and corporations are kept in check when two of them join together to oppose the third.
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by j2kun 1mo ago
What I think is nice is that the political parties opposed to data center development are actually taking concrete steps, exercising specific powers, to advance their goals. So much opposition to tech boils down to whining, and then the tec
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by j2kun 2mo ago
I'm mostly replying to your "standing on the shoulders of giants" part, when in some cases, the giant is the work you did in the past and forgot about :)
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by j2kun 2mo ago
FWIW, you may enjoy https://www.argmin.net/p/lore-laundering-machines
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by j2kun 2mo ago
I was reading another source that claimed this example was inspired by an existing (rational polynomial) example from the literature (created in 1999 by a Russian mathematician Vitushkin). > The seed is almost certainly Vitushkin's
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by j2kun 2mo ago
I think one counterpoint here is that you can still get value in using FHE in settings that don't involve scaling the number of users (e.g. B2B, public/private collab).
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by j2kun 2mo ago
IMO a big unanswered question in FHE (which is my field so I care about the answer) is key management. If you have a service with lots of different users, and each user requires 100 MiB or more in evaluation key material, simply loading tha
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by j2kun 2mo ago
> gaining any sort of insight The server providing the FHE-based service does not gain any sort of insight. This is a key point: only the client can see the output of the computation.
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Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms(sofar.belfortlabs.cloud)
93 points by j2kun 2mo ago|42 comments
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by j2kun 2mo ago
There is also Michael Lewis's book "Who Is Government?" if you want more meaningful stories.
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by j2kun 2mo ago
People do this all the time https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1iu44ub/up... https://usafacts.org/government-spending/ https://sankeymatic.com/gallery
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by j2kun 2mo ago
Discovery is the entertainment for the rest of us.

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