lyle_nel

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by lyle_nel 9y ago
I don't disagree with you on any particular point. However, who do you suppose we trust to decide what is a software implemented weapon and what is not? Of course there are very clear black and white examples, but the in between is whe
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Indeed, I did not take all of the above mentioned things into account.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Emissions of CO2 on its own does not necessarily imply that there is a carbon footprint. Besides the carbon footprint of transporting food, the food we consume is carbon neutral since the carbon in the food comes from the atmosphere. Theref
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
I don't see them claiming to have found the missing link. In any regard, biologists are unlikely to use the term 'missing link' since it implies evolution is discontinuous, which is a common mistake the layman makes.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
I have a small cluster of machines that I run experiments on. GNU parallel makes the dispatch of jobs on remote machines very easy. In addition, I often use it to search for sequences by running grep in parallel. For example $ parallel &#x2
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Could someone explain to me how this is not a correlation implies causation fallacy? I don't where a causal relation is demonstrated.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Although not this particular face recognition. I managed to fool face recognition passwords in the past with a simple photograph of the person. As you would expect it works perfectly fine.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
I am not sure that this constitutes a proof. It seems induction would be required to show that the property holds.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Most world class athletes are already genetically superior by the measure of athleticism. Even though these favourable mutations or inherited traits have not been engineered, they still exist and it does enhance the athlete's performan
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
London does it. http://abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/index/id/2041/confid/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oeMB0tYII The video is a bit cheesy, but it gets the point across.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
This seems relevant to your questions. Among other things, it discusses which crops are best suited for salinated soil as well as improving conditions for crops in salinated soil using potasium fertilisers. Also relevant to your question, i
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
This might be of interest to your temperature question. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18592898
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
"All practical purposes" for a discovery is not always immediately apparent.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
Write me a programs that could write me a program that could write Doug Lenat's Automated Mathematician ... and so on and so forth.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
The Linux Documentation Project has this to say about flushing of buffer cache: "In traditional UNIX systems, there is a program called update running in the background which does a sync every 30 seconds, so it is usually not necessary
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
How do you do the shutdown on USB change? I would like to try that out. I would imagine, depending on how it is done, that the malicious usb device might get a few keystrokes in before the system is completely down.
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by lyle_nel 10y ago
What sort of supporting infrastructure is required to reliably store it for a long time? Infrastructure such as cooling, dessication and warehousing.
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
Ah is see. Although I would not put it past people to protest nuclear fusion, it would be strange indeed, since nuclear fusion does not produce the same kind of radioactive waste(shorter half-life) as alternative nuclear technologies.
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
Something related, vlc has a mode where one can play movies as ascii art. It even works through a terminal.
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
By just looking at the title and before reading the article, I though they meant that they are checking for illegal strings that are illegal to transmit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
What political problems might that be?
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
This just in ... one vehicle on the road hit another vehicle on the road.
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
I would not put it in the category of brute-force since it really does have all the properties of a genetic algorithm. But yes it does succeed to a greater extent at cracking passwords that are intractable(long/complex) with a brute-fo
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
I really appreciate your enthusiasm. It is one of the core concepts and passwords seemed to be a good way to explore my FIFO idea in a practical manner. It might well have been done before, but from preliminary searches I could not find any
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
The part about not deleting organisms, is a small caveat that I omitted in most of the discussion since it makes the algorithm just a bit harder to understand. To clarify that point, since you asked, the organisms can be popped from the fro
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
I see what you are saying. To some extent this is already true ,since high frequency ngrams(substrings) already dominate the gene-pool if they happen to facilitate the production of a large amount viable offspring. That is why you would see
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
Sure I'll run some tests for you. I ran 2 experiments each lasting 120 seconds. For the diceware list as a seed population it finds 4570 passwords. The 6 longest ones are: 11 michelle420 11 karen123456 11 iloveyouu16 11 iloveyou789 11
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
I appreciate it.
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
Yes it is completely useless against random strings as one would expect, but with word salad it not completely useless. For example, it can find words like "tequieromuchogerald" and "paulaalejandrailove" easily enough. I
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by lyle_nel 11y ago
I understand, I tested it for you and my suspicions where right. The simulation simply stalls early on. Nothing interesting happens after that.

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