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helloasdfasdf | 8 years ago | on: Once considered a boon to democracy, social media looks like its nemesis

Non-amp link https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia...

helloasdfasdf | 8 years ago | on: Practical Public Key Cryptography

The colour analogy is a bit off, despite being a good way to get the basis of the protocol across.

The problem is with what he explains as a one-way function: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.kaytor.ca/screenshots/incorr...

While it's true that it's not possible to derive the input colours given only the output, in the case of DH both the output and the yellow (common) colour is available to Eve, which makes it trivial to reverse the other input.

The actual property a one-way function needs to be suitable for DH is to remain hard to reverse when both the output and one of the inputs is known.

helloasdfasdf | 9 years ago | on: Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

Who will collect data on our citizens using CCTVs, and the ability to compromise computers?

I don't think our society's adversaries are passing laws by showing up to court themselves.

I don't know where the line is between armed robots and CCTVs meant to control us, it feels very blurred to me.

helloasdfasdf | 9 years ago | on: Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

I believe there is another group: People who like control, when everyone involved understands and agrees with it.

It can be very hard, and it involves a consistent questioning of authority. Including the authority of ourselves, and the authority we hold over others.

We can have modern medicine, but we have to trust the people researching it. We can have modern robots, but we have to trust the people building them.

Fear is a great way to prevent people from questioning. But if we learn to question our fear itself, it can be useful to have been afraid.

helloasdfasdf | 9 years ago | on: Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning

Perhaps his girlfriend and him felt it was a group effort, and it had sentimental value to have that in the title.

When my girlfriend and I pursue things intellectually, we feel sentimental about it to some extent.

I can sympathize with OP for choosing the risk of uncharitable readings

It's also largely possible OP did not anticipate the risk of uncharitable readings, and it was not an informed decision

I can understand both an uninformed and informed decision on the part of OP

Edit: clarify, shorten, extend, extend, done ~

helloasdfasdf | 9 years ago | on: Supervised Learning and Unsupervised Learning

I believe the original author meant "my girlfriend" as in, the girl he was with specifically, whom he had explained ML to, and kept a journal of.

I think it was uncharitable for you to assume he was implying anything about girls generally. If it had been "Machine Learning: for your girlfriend," that could have been reasonable to make that assumption over.

Edit: revising, shortening, done~