stelfer

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by stelfer 2y ago
It goes deeper than Little's Law. Every decent textbook on introductory queuing theory has the result that on a normalized basis, fast server > multi-server > multi-queue. That analysis admits almost arbitrary levels of depth of
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by stelfer 6y ago
To me it sounds like they hacked the editor/code signing tools to insert malicious code on save/commit by devs. Having iron-clad CI toolchains don't help you with that. Need to focus on how to defend the devs.
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by stelfer 6y ago
> So how do we guard against this type of attack? Looks like they compromised the editor. If so, then I imagine checking checksums for each component of the toolchain would work. Though if they compromised the filesystem or runtime then
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by stelfer 6y ago
The act of measurement on the second particle destroys the entagled state of the pair. That effect can be measured on the first particle's side (which may be far away... on the other side of the galaxy maybe).
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by stelfer 6y ago
> effective, accessible because they all run as root > , and easy to use yeah
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by stelfer 6y ago
It's a strong statement but it definitely leaves the door open. Given that there's so much at stake I can't imagine a different statement. On the other hand, if you read the CISA alert[1], it's clear that (1) many indust
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by stelfer 6y ago
Take a look at Google Private Join and Compute[1]. But be aware that the problem you frame is an unsolved research problem with an active global community. The topics you are looking for are applications of secure multiparty computation and
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by stelfer 6y ago
Probably never. Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility[1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376
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by stelfer 6y ago
True, but OTOH CA will likely start to change it's forestry management practices as a result of this. The distribution of surface fuel is a joint effect of drought and policy/management.
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by stelfer 6y ago
You're assuming that the reward function is giving you the community you want. In reality the reward function is to maximize engagement, which is a proxy for ad revenue. When there's an asymmetry in engagement dynamics then the wh
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by stelfer 6y ago
Real world incremental complexity is very high. To say nothing about the lack of an ecosystem. I fondly recall interviewing at one of the faang companies years ago, when they ran out of things to ask me, and the guy turned to me and said: &
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by stelfer 6y ago
We have theorems that say that's impossible, so I guess the answer is no? Or maybe Betteridge's law?
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by stelfer 6y ago
I think "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" is a better starting point for Pearl. Not much easier but more familiar ground if you're coming from today's ML mindset. As an aside, once while reading through Wa
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by stelfer 7y ago
It's not clear that it spreads via aerosols, in fact it's more likely that it spreads via droplet and contact. Thus the virtue of the mask is that it keeps the individual's fingers away from their faces. From the perspective
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by stelfer 7y ago
I remember going to the first SciPy conference at Caltech in 2002. IIRC Most of the talk was about needing better package management. What happened since is just amazing.
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by stelfer 7y ago
Mark Newman would like a word with you regarding power laws. So would HN, honestly: [2007] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16414279
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by stelfer 7y ago
It's important to understand that there's a difference between "R&D" as it lives in most people's minds here, and "R&D" as it presents in financial reporting. The former is associated with hiring P
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by stelfer 7y ago
Thanks. I've been meaning for years to learn more about him.
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by stelfer 7y ago
Thanks for that. It made my day.
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by stelfer 7y ago
No offense to all the great people working at Docker over the years-- but after they came to see us right after they raised their series B, it immediately occurred to me that they had hired _all_ of the wrong people. I don't recall hav
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by stelfer 7y ago
Wake me up when it's dead and we can start working on what comes next.
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by stelfer 7y ago
The realization that I came to was that by speaking up I was usually asking a question that many people were not asking; by providing a strong opinion it would help to catalyze deliberate action. If you stay silent we'll never get anyt
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by stelfer 8y ago
Haha. 10 years ago the carriers were flogging the voip ISPs over putative origination fraud and _robocalls_. Lots of us in the industry proposed solutions(mine)[1]. We also built some interesting and very effective ML systems to detect the
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by stelfer 8y ago
Thank you
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by stelfer 8y ago
Also, write a treatise about how they discovered queueing theory... seems to be part of the pattern.
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by stelfer 9y ago
I'm talking specifically about modeling iid/non-iid sequences of data from events, experiments, etc. Haven't read the paper so, I'm not sure if I'm talking past the authors or OP.
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by stelfer 9y ago
Haven't read the paper, but I will. But I want to comment that it's worked for us. Sequence to sequence learning can reproduce every kind of iid and non-iid things we've ever looked at. The real question is how safe/anon
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by stelfer 10y ago
I didn't read the whole thing carefully, but... Leader Election + Terminating Reliable Broadcast is practically equivalent to building the Weakest Failure Detector and is the most feasible way of doing so. So, there are good reasons f
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by stelfer 10y ago
If you liked that, you might like Matthew Richey's "The Evolution of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods"[1] [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.295....
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by stelfer 10y ago
Most people associate "blockchains" with a protocol by which the "blocks" are inserted. Usually these things revolve around proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, proof-of-space, fairness criteria, etc. I think everyone gets t

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