idanoeman
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8 years ago
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on: Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message
Yeah, that sucks for you. But again - you didn't own the view, you just expected the view to be there. If you wanted to own the view, you'd have to own all the land in eyeshot.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'
Wouldn't that be a bit irresponsible?
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'
Wouldn't the null hypothesis be no gender difference, with gender difference in either direction to be proven by experiment?
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins'
Unless the gibberish is the same every time, the repeated sound of your password will still be parsable from a long enough sound recording of your computer usage.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Typing the technical interview
Do you have no sense of humor?
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage'
I think you mean "won't come back in 100s (1000s? 10000s?)" of years. We don't have the technology to actually eliminate life on earth.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged
Right, having-prions can be seen as adaptive for a species.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
No it's not. The fruit is: use a sideloaded Signal which you built yourself if you really need to be secure. If you're not, Signal is still better than Telegram or Whatsapp.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
Couldn't WhatsApp faithfully implement the protocol, but also keylog and phone home occasionally? How would you know?
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: The Arrival of AI
I think it was a joke...
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Night Shift compared to f.lux
The problem with the sunset feature is if you're playing a game it absolutely destroys the FPS I get. Unfortunately I think the shortest interval is 20seconds, which is a pretty long time to be playing a competitive game that stutters.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
I think I saw another person say it, cloakanddagger or something like that...
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now for Sale
Wow, that's a really interesting idea. Unfortunately any amount of lag and you get 100dpi for a fraction of a second, and then suddenly it sharpens to 300dpi... like your eyes are constantly refocusing outside of your control.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Thousands of underground gas bubbles poised to 'explode' in Arctic
Not in the deserts or the oceans, we don't.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess
Bike to / from the commuter rail
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Deep Forest: Towards an Alternative to Deep Neural Networks
Isn't Solomonoff Induction only given a Free Lunch if its priors are true? What if its priors are false?
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Amazon to hand over Echo audio from alleged murder after defendant consents
How do you know they don't
1. Listen all the time
2. Use a small neural network on the device to detect when a voice is present
3. Collect this data into one zip file, then send the file when the user says "Alexa", or anything remotely close.
They could even put a size limit on the data upload to reduce the variance to prevent you from ever testing whether they do this.
Or, they could simply transcribe the audio on the device and upload the text. Any audio they are unsure of could be uploaded to the server to be handled by a beefier neural network.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Trump2cash – A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
That also implies that if the market is very close to efficient, you need absolutely massive amounts of computational power to bring it even closer (i.e. to make money). So even if it is inefficient, that doesn't mean anyone can reasonably expect to find exploitable patterns.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Pause, We Can Go Back
That's a very uncharitable assumption about P's comment.
idanoeman
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9 years ago
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on: Telegram cracked by FSB, according to Trump allegations memo
It's not clear whether the report is real yet, but if it is, Telegram being compromised is pretty big news. Presumably this means private chats are insecure, not just normal chats.
