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tednoob | 1 year ago | on: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

My sister had ME/CFS after she had a burnout after her second kid. She was never permanently bed ridden but sometimes had to spend days resting or recovering after strain. She's not well today, but much better than at her worst. There wasn't really an accepted diagnose for it when my sister got it, and she had to fight to be recognised as sick.

I do wish Dianna the best recovery and future progress.

tednoob | 1 year ago | on: A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

It happened to me, though I resigned when I hit burnout during covid. My whole identity was just being good at my job, and then I was no longer that. In part I think some blame is also to be placed on these companies who try to make the employees feel like a tribe or family. Since I've always been alone it was easy to slip into that false sense of belonging.

tednoob | 1 year ago | on: Using a LLM to compress text

Is this method used during training? Seems to me there could be a point to only backpropagate when the model is wrong?

tednoob | 8 years ago | on: RTL-entropy: Uses RTL-SDR to turn a DVB-T dongle into an entropy source

You have two adversaries. Adversary A have control over your hardware source, and adversary B have control over /dev/urandom. If you XOR them A and B must cooperate to compromise your random generator. You can combine as many sources of randomness as you want, and each increase the difficulty for an adversary to defeat your generator.

tednoob | 8 years ago | on: Outraged about the Google diversity memo?

Frankly I do not see how 50/50, or any fixed number, can be a representation of the unbiased state. The unbiased state is unknown.

If you look at what the orchestra did and remove factors you know are irrelevant for the applicants then you should move towards a more unbiased state independent of what the number actually is. The problem is to find out what bias you have. One way is to compare the people who apply with the people you hire. You can see what traits you select on, then you can decide if you think those traits are good or bad.

tednoob | 8 years ago | on: Outraged about the Google diversity memo?

Google are countering an existing bias by hiring people contrary to the bias. The orchestra is removing the bias.

Is it possible for Google to remove bias? Isn't the real problem further upstream? I bet that if you look at all applicants applying for jobs at Google you will see the same skew as Google have in their offices already.

tednoob | 8 years ago | on: Beyond the boring blockchain bubble

I think I would say that I have some regrets not buying/mining. When I first heard about bitcoin I thought that it was pretty neat but I did not want to support it because I thought it is such a waste of exergy.

tednoob | 9 years ago | on: UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID

Isn't it better to assume nothing is safe for children and to leave the internet as the wild wild west that it is? Have the Government set up their own CA to sign the stuff they approve of. A child safe web browser would just disregard anything that doesn't have a valid certificate.

tednoob | 9 years ago | on: What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence

I'm not certain I would necessarily agree with that. I think humans are limited by memory, not by technique, and I see no real reason the same way we do it now cannot scale.

tednoob | 9 years ago | on: What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence

I want a management assisting AI. It would be neat to have it listen into all meetings to identify stakeholders and to be able to remember all the details and place them in a larger context, so you can ask detailed questions. An AI can attend all meetings, and remember every detail. Imagine intelligent documentation.

tednoob | 10 years ago | on: Turkish Citizenship Database Leaked

The 'personnummer' is also publicly available, though the sites usually have to limit access in order to comply with Personuppgiftslagen/PuL (Swedish version of the Data Protection Directive).

tednoob | 10 years ago | on: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor

I previously worked at Cryptify AB with Cryptify Call.

I think this article misses the point somewhat. This is not a backdoor, it is the entire point of the scheme. As I understood it CESG wants MIKEY-SAKKE primarily for use within the government or within companies working for the government.

For the network owner MIKEY-SAKKE is very convenient because it satisfies the criteria for Lawful interception[1] while also enabling end users to both authenticate and encrypt messages without actually talking to the network owner after the initial trust has been established. It works well as long as the user trust the network owner and you want to protect your users from external powers while maintaining the ability to decrypt any message in the network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception

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