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by thadt 4d ago
Hard disagree. Our choices are: A) Bet our collective good on the national and international cooperation of all companies, nations, and people to come together in order to slow down development of one of the most powerful economic tools (an
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by thadt 5d ago
One shot extinction? Seems unlikely. "A lot of damage" - more likely. The most likely damage comes from the associated societal chaos that comes along with times of significant social change (such as many people losing their jobs)
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by thadt 5d ago
This is a different situation. A doctor is a domain expert, but you are in possession of vastly more empirical data about your specific body. Getting to a good result is going to be easier with collaboration, rather than one of you confid
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by thadt 20d ago
Zinda, his face black, his eyes red…
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by thadt 27d ago
It's hard to pick a favorite - everyone brings their own perspective to their time. One of my early favorites was 'A Jew Who Stood Guard for Hitler'[1], the account of a kid who joined the Nazis for a while - till they found
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by thadt 27d ago
This is a really good point. My wife and I produce a history podcast where, right now, a lot of it draws on primary sources such as letters, diaries, etc. from the late 1800's to early 1900's. The ones in German she translates int
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by thadt 1mo ago
Yeah? And here I've been a happy Transkribus customer for some time now. If there are better models or interfaces out there for analyzing historical handwriting, I'll definitely take a look.
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by thadt 1mo ago
The blog’s suggestions are fine. I’m pointing out that this issue is less about “security” and more a problem of “identity”. And that such issues with identity are likely to increasingly be a problem.
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by thadt 1mo ago
In the movie Sneakers, a whole scene is taken up sending some guy on a date with Mary McDonnell so she could record clips of his voice. Today she'd just need a phone call or his Instagram. It's getting harder to keep up with who _
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by thadt 1mo ago
And likewise became EHLO which could also be used as a greeting over the phone if you were you were talking to an email server.
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by thadt 2mo ago
Given the (non-) responsiveness of the page, I’m going with they focused too much on “storage” and not enough on “network attached.”
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by thadt 2mo ago
Childhood card-holding Texan here: can confirm the king's flavor is closer to that of country mesquite smoked BBQ than McDonald's. I mean, it is comparing burgers and briskets, but if we're going for which translation is th
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by thadt 2mo ago
Heh, this one brought a smile - well played.
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by thadt 3mo ago
Yes, we've been using Transkribus for this extensively. My wife is a historian who spends quite a bit of time sorting through old letters and diaries, and it has been a considerable quality of life improvement. Even if you are able to
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by thadt 3mo ago
Whereas if we're talking about lossy compression (as is the person to whom you replied) we certainly can compress arbitrary data - almost as much as we want. The hard question, then, is how much the decompressed output looks like the
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by thadt 3mo ago
> I do not want a "connection" with a business. That's because we don't make connections with businesses - we make connections with people. That one nice hair dresser. The pharmacist that goes out of her way to make s
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by thadt 3mo ago
Right - and if I ever go to raise VC then that's a guy I'll want to talk to. Even if they themselves don't invest, their recommendation would be valuable. Life's too short to screw people over - reputation is one of the
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by thadt 4mo ago
Agreed. I scanned a short book with my phone, and a dedicated scanner would have been nice to have. But with page flattening and separation and automated capture, it went much faster than I would have thought. If I were going to do a lot mo
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by thadt 4mo ago
Maybe not years ago, but scanning documents with the phone in your pocket has become incredibly efficient. That combined with AI transcription and indexing for search makes such a project faster and cheaper in 2026 than at almost any other
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by thadt 4mo ago
That’s not necessarily the case. It depends on how autonomous your drone is and what you need to guide it to do…
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by thadt 5mo ago
They're doing transcription, not translation - so, turning someones pages of scrawled script into typewritten text. They have around 20 people nationwide that are able to do this. Most of them are older volunteers who aren't all t
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by thadt 5mo ago
AI had been a super useful for processing historical data. Interviewed a volunteer last month from the diary archive in Germany, and they're using supervised AI for diary transcription. Going from (old) personalized hand script to text
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A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines(words.filippo.io)
551 points by thadt 5mo ago|248 comments
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by thadt 6mo ago
Ironically, the reason I used Google the most then was because it indexed Usenet while so many other parts of the Internet offered by the other engines were "slop". My, how the turn tables.
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by thadt 6mo ago
In general I agree and suspect that memory safety is a tool that will continue to pay dividends for some time. But there are tradeoffs and more ways to write correct and 'safe' code than doing it in a "memory safe" langu
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by thadt 6mo ago
So the intersting question: are we long term safer with "simpler" closer to hardware memory unsafe(ish) environments like Zig, or is the memory safe but more abstract feature set of languages like Rust still the winning direction?
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by thadt 6mo ago
Bananas are like XML that way. If you're not getting the results you want, you're just not using enough of them.
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by thadt 6mo ago
They specifically call out Yingxin Li[1] in the acknowledgements section of the paper? [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/349
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by thadt 7mo ago
Clarification - in the past when I've written high performance data tools in JS, it was almost entirely to support the use case of needing it to run in a browser. Otherwise, there are indeed more suitable environments available. To you
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by thadt 7mo ago
As someone who spent hours playing Jedi Knight with friends and lots of mods, allow me to say - thank you :)

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