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Comment · 6 years ago
Effectively rendering B and C incompatible in sharing D objects and structures. Just because you technically can doesn't make it a good thing in software architecture.

There is a reason why most globally linked runtimes (e.g. C++ or Java) do not encourage such mechanisms.

Comment · 6 years ago
The Oracle vs. Google case is based around the copying of header files, including comments, verbatim as is.

The Oracle Amazon API usage is an identical re-implementation of the interfaces, but as a web solution there is per se nothing to copy in verbatim form.

The IBM-PC copycats back in the 80s went as far as clean room re-implementing the system with engineers who never saw the documentation. Ripping the header files out of a proprietary license package is quite cheap from a legal standpoint in comparison, even if open source is provided.

Comment · 6 years ago
> Lord and master, hear me crying! -

> Ah, he comes excited.

> Sir, my need is sore.

> Spirits that I've cited

> My commands ignore.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
In quantum mechanics, yes it is. See Bell's theorem.
Comment · 6 years ago
Care about their responsibilities
Comment · 6 years ago
They get my vote just for Spinal Tape creds

> Going to 11: Amping Up the Programming-Language Run-Time Foundation

Comment · 6 years ago
> Why would their targets use Facebook for communication when there's many other existing platforms that provide this service.

Because the kids pedophiles target are also there. Just like the easily manipulated teenagers are there for extremist instigation.

The letter does not concern the overall prevention of E2E encrypted communications (obviously unfeasible). It is about predatory and abusive crime settings that take place in online communities, of which Facebook is the largest one.

I am all in for the right to privacy and freedom of personal information protection. But if we go down that road we just as well should discuss the basic limits of freedom in any (offline) democratic society (ie law). I would not want to answer such a question, because it is much more complex than the usual "protect our freedom" privacy advocacy makes it look like when you consider law enforcement as a fundamental role of governments.

Comment · 6 years ago
Industrial Light and Magic would like to disagree, where Star Wars spaceships are still built in miniature model glory.

CGI is still not the same. Yet.

Comment · 6 years ago
Source?
Comment · 6 years ago
I was rather commenting on the first part implying that training a neural network with the statistical distribution that comes out of a GAN or VAE does not add value beyond that generative model capabilities.

I do not agree on that because as I explained, with domain knowledge it is very much possible to shape the data generated for augmented learning - beyond the plain statistical variations of GAN and similar, which are obviously of very limited value in training.

Comment · 6 years ago
Highly interesting thought! Based on Psychology's understanding of dreams I would guess that sleep is actually rather a replay of real experience to stabilize our neural network, but most probably augmented with synthetic variations of the experience data.
Comment · 6 years ago
You are ignoring the fact that generative AI is not closed-loop algorithm. You can synthesize expected features in a data set and feed them to the detector - out of bounds of the generative neural network that rather serves the purpose of mapping into (a subset of) the proper input space.

The power of synthesis is not within the GAN or VAE, it is in the outside mechanism that guides the creation of content with specific domain knowledge about the feature space.

This might not replace the value of real data, but it will allow to accelerate bootstrap, improve coverage (at cost of accuracy), or provide free environments for auxiliary processes like CI/CD in many deep learning applications.

There is a lot of published material on synthetic data augmentation if you actually look for it.

Comment · 6 years ago
Kotline looses me at val vs. var

So much focus on readability otherwise, what happened there?

Comment · 6 years ago
Why would they release an audit that effectively provides them with zero-days into encrypted suspect disks.

They release now because no one is using TrueCrypt any longer..

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