omphalos

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by omphalos 6y ago
Consider the problem of predicting an agent's binary choice. If an agent follows a strategy of always choosing the opposite of what the algorithm predicts, then the algorithm's prediction will always be incorrect. A "true f
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by omphalos 6y ago
People are not their governments. Viewing competing governments as competition between their countries - I think that is propaganda. The US government violates the privacy of US people through mass surveillance. Now it is competing for c
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by omphalos 6y ago
The money is there, it just mostly resides in the hands of the few. The mean net worth of an American household is almost $700,000 - that's total net worth of all households, divided by number of households.
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by omphalos 7y ago
FYI I see [dead] by your comments. Maybe you have been hell-banned?
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by omphalos 9y ago
Yes, and a lot of it isn't, which is what I'm saying :)
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by omphalos 9y ago
Money isn't the only motivation someone can have. People write lots of open source code for free, for example.
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by omphalos 10y ago
I think it's because of the common assumption that the system that controls your data must also house the application that interacts with this data. When decentralized applications finally arrive (the inklings are already here) users
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ServiceWorker's Link leads to botnet-like persistent JavaScript worker(bugs.chromium.org)
101 points by omphalos 10y ago|7 comments
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by omphalos 10y ago
I kind of think of imminent battle between decentralized/centralized as analogous to the Linux/Windows wars of yesterday. Over the short term you're probably right that centralized services will win. But because decentraliz
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by omphalos 10y ago
Privacy-wise Palantir is even scarier than Facebook.
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Mango: Git completely decentralized(medium.com)
8 points by omphalos 10y ago|0 comments
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?(mathoverflow.net)
1 points by omphalos 10y ago|0 comments
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Using dependent and polymorphic types for safer development of smart contracts [pdf](publications.lib.chalmers.se)
3 points by omphalos 10y ago|0 comments
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by omphalos 10y ago
Seems like an argument against the idea that patents encourage innovation.
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by omphalos 10y ago
It's remarkable how a company with so many resources can make something so poorly designed.
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by omphalos 10y ago
Can people join this network without downloading an application - will it be available in the browser? The reason I ask is most decentralized applications up to this point require a download to start your own node (zeronet for example). A
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by omphalos 11y ago
The "grid" is a graphic design principle [1] that existed long before CSS. You can implement this in CSS with flexbox or something else. If you don't care about vertical alignment of elements at different heights on your pa
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by omphalos 11y ago
Well it's not exactly common. It's used to describe the very best moves at the highest level of play.
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by omphalos 11y ago
> the stark degree to which "AlphaGo output that move because the board will later be in a winning state" sometimes doesn't correlate with conventional Go goals like taking territory or being up on points Minor quibbles: 1
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by omphalos 11y ago
I wish the author included something about the Intel Management Engine. It runs closed source software with privileged access to your entire machine including support for remote execution, has a history of critical vulnerabilities, and is
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by omphalos 11y ago
Yeah, MCTS is traditionally terrible with ko. It would be interesting to learn how AlphaGo addresses or doesn't address this.
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by omphalos 11y ago
I recently encountered the Duhem-Quine thesis on wikipedia which I think presents a really interesting perspective on testability, something I never really questioned before in the philosophy of science. [1]: https://en.wikipedia
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by omphalos 11y ago
Reminds me of nobackend.org
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by omphalos 11y ago
Now if only they would stop requiring JavaScript to see images :)
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by omphalos 11y ago
It would be nice if the ability to reason about execution timings were one of the design goals of WebAssembly, because this could make it safer to port to crypto to the web.
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Show HN: Cross-browser hot-swappable JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by omphalos 11y ago|0 comments
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by omphalos 11y ago
What should happen is that we do incremental computation, sort of like what's described here [1]. You ought to be able to declaratively specify that such-and-such collection maps to such-and-such elements. If you change just one elem
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by omphalos 11y ago
You can read section 3.7 of their paper for an overview: http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf I imagine you could go through their codebase to try to see how far this has come along: https://github.com/ipf
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by omphalos 11y ago
Yes and additionally (with Chrome's DevTools) you get out-of-the-box functionality like the ability to set a break point, live edit your code right at the breakpoint, and save your change right back to the filesystem. With transpiled
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by omphalos 11y ago
I believe they have an "IPNS" protocol which is intended to handle mutations.

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